How to add a certificate based credential to Windows Credential Manager?

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CJ7 picture CJ7 · Mar 5, 2014 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

How do you add a certificate from the personal store as a certificate based credential in Windows Credential Manager?

When I click on "Open the Certificate Manager" it just takes me to the Certificate Manager and there is no way to actually select the certificate to be added as a certificate based credential.

It doesn't make any difference what I type in "Internet or network address". When I press "Select certificate" it just asks me to insert a smart card.

Answer

Guntram Blohm picture Guntram Blohm · Sep 29, 2014

In certmgr, right-click the client certificate, choose "Enable only the following purposes", and disable Smart Card Logon and Any Purpose (which seems to include Smart Card Logon). (Or, disable everything except Client Authentication).

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Obviously, if Smart Card Logon is enabled, the credential manager won't use the certificate without a smartcard.

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