{"id":6921,"date":"2009-01-12T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2009\/01\/12\/setting-up-tfs-to-require-client-certificates\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:22:17","slug":"setting-up-tfs-to-require-client-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/setting-up-tfs-to-require-client-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up TFS to require client certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A portion of our very security conscious customers want to be able to configure their TFS server to require client certificates.&nbsp; Client certificates allow an additional level of security on top of user name and password that ensures that the computer terminal being used has security clearance &#8211; through a cryptographic certificate.&nbsp; The first requests we got for this feature were from the U.S. government but since then we&#8217;ve had other requests as well.\nUnfortunately configuring it properly is a bit tricky.&nbsp; As such, we&#8217;ve recent produced a document on how to do it: <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd407788.aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd407788.aspx<\/a>\nIf you want to enable client certificate with TFS, this document is a must read.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A portion of our very security conscious customers want to be able to configure their TFS server to require client certificates.&nbsp; Client certificates allow an additional level of security on top of user name and password that ensures that the computer terminal being used has security clearance &#8211; through a cryptographic certificate.&nbsp; The first requests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A portion of our very security conscious customers want to be able to configure their TFS server to require client certificates.&nbsp; Client certificates allow an additional level of security on top of user name and password that ensures that the computer terminal being used has security clearance &#8211; through a cryptographic certificate.&nbsp; The first requests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}