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Understanding and Troubleshooting - Strong Certificate Name Mapping in Active Directory

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Chris_Cartwright
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Sep 05, 2025

The hardening cometh and that right soon

Hello team, Manuel here. In recent years, Microsoft has introduced Strong Certificate Name Mapping (Strong Mapping) as a requirement for certificate-based authentication in Active Directory environme...
Published Sep 05, 2025
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geakin
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Sep 09, 2025

Thanks Chris_Cartwright​ and Manuel for the timely release of this repair kit!  Heaven knows, there's been a lot of ambiguity to work out for an issue that's been crying out for straight, fully vetted solutions for several months now.  Our customers can rest more easily now. 🙂