Setup of Cloud Management Gateway

This is an old video I made for a presentation I held together with Alessandro Cesarini at the Microsoft Ready conference. It’s speeded up a bit so pay attention! ?

So, did you figure out what went wrong during the first ‘Connection Analyzer’ test?

If not, it was due to the lack of a CNAME entry in DNS since I used a public certificate for my CMG service.

I also created a drawing that might be helpful to remember/understand what you need to get it to work. The client certificate is only needed for non-Windows 10 devices that are not either AAD/Hybrid joined.

Another pro tip is if something goes wrong with one of your apps and you need to delete them or one of them… Oh yeah, there’s no way to do that from the console! Luckily, we can do it from SQL. But hush, don’t tell anyone.

CMG components:

For further details I would recommend the official documentation docs.microsoft.com

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