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suchislife
Asked: 2020-12-02 14:15:26 +0800 CST

Windows 10 Pro as RDP Host with SSL Certificate. How?

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I have exhausted my patience looking for how to add an SSL certificate to my Windows 10 Pro machine so that when I connect from another place, I don't get certificate errors.

So far, every guide I run into eventually turns out to be for Windows Server.

What I've tried:

I click on start menu then type certlm.msc and hit Enter.

I place my purchased certificate in the Host Machine's Personal > Certificates folder AND the Remote Desktop > Certificate Service folder.

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When I try to reconnect from another machine, I still get the certificate trust error.

Can anyone help?

Again, I am trying to accomplish this in a Windows 10 Pro machine, NOT Windows Server.

remote-desktop security ssl-certificate windows-10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    On client, same rules apply. You have to assign certificate to RDS configuration. For example, using PowerShell:

    $path = (Get-WmiObject -class "Win32_TSGeneralSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\terminalservices -Filter "TerminalName='RDP-tcp'").__path
Set-WmiInstance -Path $path -argument @{SSLCertificateSHA1Hash="THUMBPRINT"}

    where THUMBPRINT is a thumbprint of your certificate. These commands must be executed in elevated shell.

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