Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Deploying Root certificate in SCCM 2007 R3

1. Export root certificate.
             a. Launch certmgr.msc
             b. Locate root certificate in Trusted Root Certification Authorities\Certificates
             c. Right-click the certificate in the results pane, click All Tasks, and then click Export. Complete the  Certificate Export Wizard using the default settings.

2. To deploy root certificate using SCCM
             a. Copy the Certutil.exe and Certadm.dll (installed in %windir%\system32) files to the same directory as the exported certificate.
              b. Create a software distribution package containing the files (certutil.exe, certadm.dll, RootCert.cer).
              c. Add a software distribution program that runs the following command-line
                            1st program: certutil.exe -addstore Root RootCert.cer
                            2nd program: certutil.exe -addstore TrustedPublisher RootCert.cer
                                  (specify the first program to run before the second).
               d. Create an advertisement for distributing the package and program to the appropriate collection.