Automatically Enrolling Certificates with Group Policy

If I said that privacy and protection are important in today’s networks, you’d probably start thinking I was a little behind the times. In this day and age, security is high on everyone’s priority list (or should be).

Like all good ideas, the acceptance of a given technology has a relation to its complexity, cost, and ease of deployment. Sadly, we can’t do much about the complexity of understanding the details of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). In fact, entire books have been written about this subject, so we will not be able to go into too many details here.