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Install Without a Microsoft Certificate Authority

If you are not able to install a Microsoft certificate authority, you must acquire the certificates for all of your domain controllers and any you add in the future.

To acquire the certificates

• Purchase the certificates using the fully qualified machine names for the domain controllers from trusted certificates vendors and handle the renewal activity based on the terms that are agreed upon.
• Create and maintain your own certificates using tools that are available to you.

  Note: Two certificates are usually received for each domain controller, a certificate authority certificate and a certificate for the machine.

Once you have received the certificates, you can use the mmc.exe utility to install them. You must also install the certificate authority certificate on all of your Provisioning Servers and the machines where the C++ Connector Server is installed.