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I have been asked to install a software certificate into AD using a GPO. This certificate would go into the Trusted Publisher Store to certify a software appplication.<br />
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At this time we do not want to install a full blown Enterprise CA server. &nbsp;I have Googled around with no luck on how to do this.<br />
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Question is: Can it be done without a CA server and how?
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I have been asked to install a software certificate into AD using a GPO. This certificate would go into the Trusted Publisher Store to certify a software appplication.

At this time we do not want to install a full blown Enterprise CA server.  I have Googled around with no luck on how to do this.

Question is: Can it be done without a CA server and how?

Install software certificate into AD using a GPO

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