Configure custom SSL certificate for RDP on Windows Server 2012 in Remote Administration mode?

Posted by Ryan Bolger on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Ryan Bolger
Published on 2012-11-01T07:15:20Z Indexed on 2014/08/23 4:22 UTC
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So the release of Windows Server 2012 has removed a lot of the old Remote Desktop related configuration utilities. In particular, there is no more Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration utility that gave you access to the RDP-Tcp properties dialog that let you configure a custom certificate for the RDSH to use. In its place is a nice new consolidated GUI that is part of the overall "edit deployment properties" workflow in the new Server Manager. The catch is that you only get access to that workflow if you have the Remote Desktop Services role installed (as far as I can tell).

This seems like a bit of an oversight on Microsoft's part. How can we configure a custom SSL certificate for RDP on Windows Server 2012 when it's running in the default Remote Administration mode without needlessly installing the Remote Desktop Services role?

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