Q: Why use a 3rd party SSL cert for APN?
When I watch anything on setting up APN for profile manager it is "highly recommended" that a 3rd party certificate is purchased and used instead of a self signed one. Can anyone tell me if a self signed certificate will work at all?
I ask because recently we had everything working using our company's wildcard certificate and when it expired the server team in charge of the certificates in our organization decided that they give out as few of these as they could (not sure why, is this expensive, or bad practice?). They suggested that I use a self signed certificate for the Apple server. I did and made sure that I secured the services using it under Certificates in the Server app. Since then I can see that changes sent to clients are stuck in the pending status.
When I try to install the enrollment profile it says that the certificate server is invalid and that I need to install the trust profile (which I have). What am I missing?
I realize this is not a lot of info to go off of so hit me!
Thanks, J
Mac mini, OS X Server
Posted on Aug 9, 2016 3:13 PM