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Get rid of those annoying self-signed certificates with Microsoft Certificate Services, Part 1

Guillermo Musumeci
5 min readDec 19, 2019

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If your role includes deploying applications in the data center, such VMware vSphere, vCenter or vRealize, or other applications that uses self-signed certificates, you will suffer annoying messages every time you open the application in your browser, including “Your connection is not private” or “ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID”

Your connection is not private error

Also, sometimes you can’t even visit the site, in particular when you receive the mega-annoying HSTS message “You cannot visit server.kopicloud.local right now because the website uses HSTS. Network errors and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work later.”.

Or maybe you receive the lovelyserver.kopicloud.local normally uses encryption to protect your information. When Google Chrome tried to connect to server.kopicloud.local this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. This may happen when an attacker is trying to pretend to be server.kopicloud.local, or a Wi-Fi sign-in screen has interrupted the connection. Your information is still secure because Google Chrome stopped the connection before any data was exchanged.”

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Guillermo Musumeci

Certified AWS, Azure & GCP Architect | HashiCorp Ambassador | Terraform SME | KopiCloud Founder | ex-AWS | Entrepreneur | Book Author | Husband & Dad of ✌