Re: Automatic enrollment of user certificates
anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 01/06/04
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:31:52 -0800
Brian
Thanks for your extensive response - I will definitely
look into this.
Jem
>-----Original Message-----
>In article <09b001c3d467$9e555ba0$a501280a@phx.gbl>,
>anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com says...
>> Hello + A Gu'id Ne'er to You!
>>
>> I have setup an Enterprise Root CA on Windows 2003 in a
>> Windows 2000 AD.
>>
>> I am using the certficates in conjunction with RADIUS
>> (IAS) on a Win2003 machine to provide 802.1x auth for
>> ethernet clients via an HP ProCurve switch as a trial.
>> (The plan is to deploy wifi later) The clients are XP
XP1.
>>
>> My question is... it is possible to automatically
enroll
>> user certificates on a client machine. Obviously it is
>> possible to do this for computer certs via a GPO.
However
>> if the connection breaks (as will happen with wifi) the
>> reconnection demands a user cert not a computer cert -
and
>> it is not ideal to have to install certs on client
>> machines manually.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Jem
>>
>Hi Jem,
>
>Yes it is possible. There are a few requirements:
>1) You apply the Windows Server 2003 schema extensions
(you should have
>done this to install the enterprise CA).
>
>2) You create a version 2 certificate template that
enables
>autoenrollment for a group that the user is a member of
that allows
>Client authentication (duplicate the user signing only
version 1
>template).
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver
2003/deploy/co
>nfeat/ws03crtm.asp
>
>3) You need to enable autoenrollment in Group Policy.
This must be done
>from a 2k3 server or from a xp computer with the 2k3
adminpak installed.
>Details are in the following whitepaper. Ensure that the
GPO is defined
>at the OU where the *user* accounts are defined, not the
computer
>accounts.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver
2003/plan/auto
>enro.asp
>
>The combination will allow autoenrollment to any XP
computers that are
>domain members. This does not work for 2k computers, only
2k3 computers.
>
>Brian
>.
>
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