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Windows Server 2025 Hyper-V Workgroup Cluster with Certificate-Based Authentication

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OrinThomas
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Jul 01, 2025
In this guide, we will walk through creating a 2-node or 4-node Hyper-V failover cluster where the nodes are not domain-joined, using mutual certificate-based authentication instead of NTLM or shared...
Updated Jul 01, 2025
Version 2.0
Windows Server
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vladdrac1
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Sep 24, 2025

Hi, very nice article

 

I came across an issue, when using internal CA certificates, i've got an error when testing from one node to another.

 

the error is related to certificate recovation, and I'm not getting this sorted out

 

some help would be  much appreciated

 

PS C:\cert> Test-WSMan HV03 -UseSSL
Test-WSMan : <f:WSManFault xmlns:f="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wsmanfault" Code="12175" Machine="HV01.hv.cluster"><f:Message>The server certificate on the destination computer (HV03:5986) has the following errors:
The SSL certificate could not be checked for revocation. The server used to check for revocation might be unreachable.         </f:Message></f:WSManFault>
At line:1 char:1
+ Test-WSMan HV03 -UseSSL
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (HV03:String) [Test-WSMan], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WsManError,Microsoft.WSMan.Management.TestWSManCommand

 

regards