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Replacing Hyper-V's Self-Signed Certificates
If you want to replace Hyper-V's self-signed certificates when connecting to VMs with Virtual Machine Connection tool, follow these steps.
Jan De Clercq
May 8, 2013
1 Min Read
Q: How can I replace the self-signed certificates a Hyper-V host uses for server authentication when connecting to one of its virtual machines (VMs) using the Virtual Machine Connection tool?
Related: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Security Features
A: You might, for example, want to use a server authentication certificate that's generated by your enterprise Certification Authority (CA) instead of the self-signed Hyper-V certificates. To do this, you would need to follow these steps:
Disable the automatic generation of self-signed certificates on the Hyper-V host.
Delete the existing self-signed certificates.
Request a new server authentication certificate for your Hyper-V host from your enterprise CA.
Install and configure this new certificate on your Hyper-V host.
This process is explained in greater detail in the Microsoft article "Configuring Certificates for Virtual Machine Connection."
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