Over the past few months, I’ve been writing extensively about building and configuring Microsoft Enterprise PKI (AD CS). And if you’re anything like me, you probably run some kind of home lab where you test ideas before deploying them at work.

At the same time, there’s a noticeable shift happening in the industry. Proxmox is showing up more and more, not just in home labs, but increasingly in enterprise environments as well. The same applies to my own setup. I’ve been running Proxmox for over two years now and I genuinely like the platform.

One thing that has been bothering me for a while, however, is that it uses a self-signed certificate for its management web interface. While the connection itself is still encrypted and protected (contrary to popular belief), it simply isn’t how things should be in a properly managed environment. So let’s fix that.

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