Install a Certificate to the Trusted Root Certificate Authorities

Purpose:
You wish to install a certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities location using PDQ Deploy.

Resolution:
The following command will install the <certname>.cer file into the local system's root certificate store.

certutil.exe -addstore root \\UNCpath\certname.cer

You will need to change the UNC path to the certificate file.

For PDQ Deploy with an Enterprise license, you can use a Command Step instead of the standard Install Step and paste the command. If you are running PDQ Deploy in Free mode, create a .bat file with the same command and use an Install Step (referenced in Install File field).

See also:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e78byta0.aspx
Certutil
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23869177/import-certificate-to-trusted-root-but-not-to-personal-command-line

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