Automated public S/MIME certificate distribution and configuration to domain joined devices?

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My team recently made the decision to enforce the use of digital email signing, and offering at least for internal purposes the option of email encryption.

We will be purchasing S/MIME certificates from one of the top 3 globally trusted certificate service providers, whereby the CSR will be generated by my team, and therefor will end-up with roughly 150 PFX files, 1 for every mail address used and defined on our Office 365 environment. This way we can also support certificate and key-roll over as we as the IT team generated the CSR and not relying on the end-user (device) to create it.

We make use of a local AD that syncs to AAD.

Me and my team know how to manually install the certificate for a user, and we know how to manually configure Outlook for Windows (most commonly used). We also understand how to automatically get a certificate from ADCS to a domain joined end-point.


My first question is:


How do I import these 150 PFX files and their relevant passwords in such a way that these certificates and keys are automatically pushed to every relevant user who makes use of a domain joined (Windows) device?


My second question is:

Is there a way, that enables automated configuration of Outlook, so that Outlook by default always digitally signs new and reply emails, and optionally allows for encryption to target recipients, using the installed/pushed S/MIME certificate?

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