I have a home network with Windows Server 2012 Essentials installed. I have not enabled Remote Desktop Services since I have no need for remote access to the server for application usage. However, I do want to be able to use Remote Desktop as a connection into the server for administration purposes.
Since installing Essentials, I have started getting a certificate error regarding a non-trusted authority when I connect through my work laptop. My work laptop is a member of a different domain from home so I'm not able to leverage any group policy settings from the server to do any configurations.
For some reason, the server is auto-generating a security certificate for the Local Computer - Remote Desktop Services that is self-signed and presenting that certificate to my laptop each time I try to connect to Remote Desktop. I have tried everything imaginable that I can find to provide a valid certificate to my laptop that will stop this process but it seems everything I read either addresses the situation from a Remote Desktop Services perspective and setting Rdp-Tcp or from a computer that is part of the domain that can accept group policy settings.
I need help in getting my work laptop to accept use a Remote Desktop Authentication / Server Authentication certificate that is created on the server through the Certificate Authority and stop the auto-generation of the self-signed certificate that is being added to the server Certificates-Local Computer-Remote Desktop.
Thanks!