Adding a managed server via certificate authentication in Veeam Software Appliance?

[jfreeman]

We are testing the Veeam Software Appliance. We are trying to add a Windows Server 2025 managed server via certificate-based authentication. It says that it "requires a deployment kit pre-installed to the target machine." So, the first time I added the server, I added it via traditional admin credentials. That worked fine. Then, with the deployment kit now installed on the server, I tried to go back and edit the managed server and change the credentials back to using certificate-based authentication. The interface seemingly allows this, but once it saves your configuration changes, it actually is not switching to certificate-based authentication and remains using admin credentials.

1. Is this a bug? Should it actually allow switching from admin credentials to certificate-based authentication on an existing managed server?

2. In any case, is there a more supported way to do this? Is there a place to get the v13 version of the Windows Server deployment kit so I can manually install the deployment kit without needing to do the hacky workaround of first installing via admin credentials?

[david.domask]

Hi jfreeman,

You can create a deployment kit in the Inventory pane in the remote (thick) console -- create it there and deploy it to the desired server, then add the server fresh using the "Use Certificate-based authentication".

That's the correct workflow.