Add to Favorites Like the majority of server systems you will install your SSL certificate on the same server where your Certificate Signing Request (CSR) was created. Your private key will always be left on the server system where the CSR was originally created. Your SSL certificate will not work without this private key file. […]
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How To Enable Or Import A Root Certifciate In Windows Systems Using MMC.
Add to Favorites Depending on the circumstance you may be getting mixed results of browser certificate trust or for whatever reason are experiencing an issue with Cross Root Certificates or warning of not fully trusting a chaining root. Cross Root Certificate where used back in the day by some Certificate Authorities to help certificate trust to […]
How To Export an SSL Certificate With Private Key (pfx) Using MMC On Windows
Add to Favorites Windows servers use .pfx/.p12 files to contain the public key file (SSL Certificate) and its unique private key file. The Certificate Authority (CA) provides you with your SSL Certificate (public key file). You use your server to generate the associated private key file where the CSR was created. You need both the […]
How to move SSL Certificate from MMC to MMC
Add to Favorites Not all websites or applications use IIS or Exchange for its SSL configurations, but they may refer to the Windows MMC certificate stores for their configurations and may need to move an SSL certificate from one system to another. Windows servers use .pfx/.p12 files to contain the public key file (SSL Certificate) […]
How to create a MMC Snap-In for troubleshooting certificates.
Add to Favorites Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is the management console that is used to configure, manipulate, create, and fix services on a windows system in the back end that you probably wont be able to do with any front end application. It is used heavily to troubleshoot matters related to SSL certificates on Windows systems. Open up […]
Windows Server IIS/Exchange – Intermediate Installation
Add to Favorites You have successfully installed your SSL Certificate on a windows server system although you might be having some trust issues on certain browsers or applications are not fully trusting your SSL Certificate. This may be due to a lack of an intermediate CA certificate file that helps Chain the Trust to your clients […]