If you work with wild card certificates, it’s common to need to deploy them to more than one server. You will need to export the certificate to install it on other systems.

In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to export a certificate using MMC (Microsoft Management Console).

The Process

• Connect to the system that has the certificate you want to export.
• Open MMC.
• Add the Certificates Snap-in.

• Select Computer account and click Next.

• Select Local computer and click Finish.

• Click OK to close the Add or Remove Snap-ins window.

• Right-click on the Certificate you want to export and click Export.

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When you create a CSR and provide it to your certificate vendor or CA (Certificate Authority), you must complete the CSR (Certificate Signing Request).

In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to complete a CSR.

Prerequisites

• CSR generated on a system that you want to complete the CSR on. If you don’t know how my post Generate CSR with MMC details all the steps.

You can check which system has the pending certificate by checking the Certificate Enrollment Requests in MMC (Microsoft Management Console).

The Process

• Connect to the system you used to generate the CSR.
• Download the certificate files from your certificate vendor or CA.

• Right-click on the certificate file and select Install Certificate.

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There are many ways to generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) one of them is with IIS. What if you don’t have IIS or you want to be stubborn and not use IIS at all? In this post I will detail step-by-step how to generate a CSR using MMC (Microsoft Management Console).

• Open MMC

• Add the Certificates Snap-in

• Select Computer account and click Next.

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