Installing a CA certificate on multiple Windows machines (IE/Firefox)

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I look after ~50 machines running XP/Vista, all on a single Windows Server 2008 domain. We are rolling out a number of test webservers internally, which have their SSL certificates signed with a company internal CA.

To prevent users being confused by SSL warnings, I need to install the CA's certificate on each of the machines.

Any ideas how to automatically install a certificate on Windows machines for IE and Firefox?

Best Answer

Your best bet is to deply your root certificate to the machines using group policy. This article here explains the process in good detail.