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Microsoft NPS as a RADIUS Server for WiFi Networks: Self Signed Certificate

Nigel Bowden of Wifi Nigel comments:

Most of the time, a Microsoft PKI infrastructure is used to issue a certificate to the NPS server, which is a relatively straightfoward process that is well documented in official Microsoft documentation.

However, there may be times when you want to fire up a version of NPS (perhaps in a lab or POC environment) and just put on your own self-signed certificate, instead of having the additional overhead of getting CA servers etc. going.

Finding out how to create and install your own self-signed certificate is not that easy to do, so I thought I’d document the process I managed to get going recently, which may help someone save themselves some time at some point.

Setting up a certificate isn’t easy to do. Active Directory is the de facto identity store today, so Nigel’s shortcuts will help immensely with the process.

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