# TLS Windows Certificate Manager
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tls-windows-certificate-manager/133486
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [May 28, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tls-windows-certificate-manager/133486 "2018-05-28T08:17:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@anon80523324](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon80523324)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tls-windows-certificate-manager/133486/1 "2018-05-28T08:17:54Z")
Hello. Is it possible use the certificate store when setting up TLS with Beats on Windows or do I have to copy the files to a some location in the file system? I think it can be used for CAs if _certificate\_authorities_ is left empty but I also want to use the store for my client certificats.
> If certificate\_authorities is empty or not set, the trusted certificate authorities of the host system are used
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### Author:  [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tls-windows-certificate-manager/133486/2 "2018-05-28T16:50:44Z")
Clients certificate needs to be present on the filesystem, by looking at the code we currently don't use any system certificate for clients. It may be something we support in the future.
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### Author:  [@anon80523324](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon80523324)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tls-windows-certificate-manager/133486/3 "2018-05-30T12:24:29Z")
Thanks for the info. Would definitely be a nice feature.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tls-windows-certificate-manager/133486/4 "2018-06-27T14:24:34Z")
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