Remote Desktop Server Certificate with win-acme

Modified on Fri, 1 Aug at 2:06 PM

Download win-acme pluggable, and the associated plugins (in our case, Cloudflare) and extract to c:\tools\win-acme\. 


In c:\tools\win-acme\settings.json, set PrivateKeyExportable to true, and set the DnsServers to 1.1.1.1.

"DnsServers": [ "1.1.1.1" ]


Run wacs.exe as administrator.

 

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Select M to create certificate with full options

 

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Select 2 for manual input

 

Type in the full FQDN hostname

 

Press enter to accept the default friendly name.

 

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Select 4 to make a single certificate

 

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Select 6 to use Cloudflare DNS

 

Select 1 to type in the API key from Cloudflare, and then paste it in, and type y to save it, and then give it a name


Select 2 to use an RSA key


Select 4 to use the Windows Certificate Store (Local Computer)


Select 2 to use the [My] general computer store


Select 5 for no additional store steps


Select 2 to start an external script


For the script file, type in:

Scripts\ImportRDSFull.ps1


Type as the parameter {CertThumbprint}


Select 3 for no additional installation steps



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