PKI Planning Guide & Operations Manager

As you may be aware, communication between Operations Manager components requires mutual authentication via either Kerberos or certificate-based authentication. While configuration of certificate-based authorization is not difficult, one of the most common issues I encounter is a lack of understanding of how certificates work. This is also going to necessitate a PKI deployment for  organizations that have none. Here is a nice quick walkthrough the PKI planning process I ran across today. A Microsoft PKI Quick Guide - Part 1: Planning Also, we put a guide together on common scenarios requiring certificated-authentication, with detailed configuration steps. I'll try to do another round of updates to this to provide additional PKI guidance soon. http://www.systemcenterforum.org/ops-mgr-2007-gateway-server-and-pki-scenarios-document/ Get the latest news, updates, articles and downloads from System Center Forum via rss by subscribing to the following feed in the aggregator of your choice. http://feeds.feedburner.com/systemcenterforum Powered by ScribeFire.