Certificates

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 **IMPORTANT**: This file is in active development along with the policies in Firefox. To get the policy information that corresponds to a specific release, go to https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/releases.
 
-Policies can either be specified using the Group Policy templates or by creating a file called `policies.json`. On Windows, create a directory called `distribution` where the EXE is located and place the file there. On Mac, the file goes into `Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/distribution`.  On Linux, the file goes into `firefox/distribution`, where `firefox` is the installation directory for firefox, which varies by distribution.
+Policies can be specified using the Group Policy templates on Windows (https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/tree/master/windows), configuration profiles on macOS (https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/tree/master/mac), or by creating a file called `policies.json`. On Windows, create a directory called `distribution` where the EXE is located and place the file there. On Mac, the file goes into `Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/distribution`.  On Linux, the file goes into `firefox/distribution`, where `firefox` is the installation directory for firefox, which varies by distribution.
 
 The content of the JSON file should look like this:
 ```
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 }
 ```
 ### Certificates
-This policy can be used to install certificates or to read certificates from the system certificate store on Mac and Windows. Certificates can be located in the following locations:
+This policy can be used to install certificates or to read certificates from the system certificate store on Mac and Windows.
+
+The ImportEnterpriseRoots key will cause Firefox to import from the system certificate store.
+
+The Install Certificates key by default will search for certificates in the locations listed below. 
+Starting in Firefox 65 you can specify a fully qualified path including UNC. (See cert3.der and cert4.pem, in example).
+
+**Be advised if you wish to load a certificate from a UNC path you must use double backslahes.**
+Example: \\SERVER\\CERTS\CERT5.PEM
+
+
+If Firefox does not find something at your fully qualified path, it will search the default directories.
+
+Certificates can be located in the following locations:
 - Windows
   - %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Certificates
   - %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Certificates
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   - /usr/lib/mozilla/certificates
   - /usr/lib64/mozilla/certificates
   - ~/.mozilla/certificates
- 
-In Firefox 65, you can specify a fully qualified path.
+
 
 ```
 {
   "policies": {
     "Certificates": {
       "ImportEnterpriseRoots": true,
-      "Install": ["cert1.der", "cert2.pem"]
+      "Install": ["cert1.der", "cert2.pem", "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Company\cert3.der", "/Library/Company/cert4.pem", "\\server\\certs\\cert.pem"]
     }
   }
 }