Microsoft’s long-running Kerberos hardening campaign is entering its final, non-reversible phase: the temporary registry workarounds that allowed administrators to keep weak certificate mappings and “Compatibility” behavior will be removed with the September 2025 servicing wave, forcing everyone...
active directory
altsecurityidentities
august 2025
certificatebasedauth
compatibility mode
eventid39
intune
kerberos
ndes
pki
policy enforcement
scep
sidextension
strongcertificatebinding
windows server
Microsoft will remove support for the StrongCertificateBindingEnforcement registry key on Windows domain controllers on September 10, 2025, forcing a permanent switch to stricter, strong certificate-to-account mappings that will break legacy certificate-based authentication setups unless...