Automatic certificate request settings

Certificate enrollment is the process of requesting, receiving, and installing a certificate By using automatic certificate settings in Public Key Policies, you can have computers that are associated with a Group Policy object automatically enroll for certificates. This can save you the step of explicitly enrolling for computer-related certificates for each computer.

After you establish an automatic certificate request, the actual certificate requests occur the next time that the computers that are associated with the Group Policy object log on to the network.

For more information, see:

Automatic certificate request policy 

Public Key Policies overview 

Note

Automatic certificate requests work only with certification authorities (CA) that run the enterprise policy module.

You must have administrative privileges to establish automatic certificate requests for a Group Policy object.


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