"Colin Bondi" wrote:

> Greetings
> I have an IIS website that I need to enable SSL for. I am familiar with the
> process of generating a certificate request from IIS and I have done that
> and generated a certreq.txt file. For this we didn't need a verisign
> certificate so we installed certificates services on a Windows 2003 box as a
> standalone CA. I copied the file over to the CA server and had it generate a
> certificate, no problem. However what I can't figure out is how to get it to
> generate a .cer file that I can copy back to the web server and install in
> IIS. I'm not sure how to complete the process once the CA server has
> generated a certificate. With verisign I always got a file back that I
> installed on the web server. What am I missing here?
> thanks
> Colin
>
> PS - the CA server is a 2003 box that is a domain controller, the IIS server
> is win2k
>
>
>

"Susieber" <Susie***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DE3DC2F9-345B-4FE9-A943-FFAE7AA33405@microsoft.com...
> Hey Colin,
>
> You need to export the file to a .cer file from the CA server. See the
> "Generating Certificates Manually in the Certification Authority Snap-In"
> topic in Managing Microsoft Certificate Services and SSL at
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/maintain/featusability/c06iis.mspx.
> Hopefully that helps.
>
> Susie
>
> "Colin Bondi" wrote:
>
>> Greetings
>> I have an IIS website that I need to enable SSL for. I am familiar with
>> the
>> process of generating a certificate request from IIS and I have done that
>> and generated a certreq.txt file. For this we didn't need a verisign
>> certificate so we installed certificates services on a Windows 2003 box
>> as a
>> standalone CA. I copied the file over to the CA server and had it
>> generate a
>> certificate, no problem. However what I can't figure out is how to get it
>> to
>> generate a .cer file that I can copy back to the web server and install
>> in
>> IIS. I'm not sure how to complete the process once the CA server has
>> generated a certificate. With verisign I always got a file back that I
>> installed on the web server. What am I missing here?
>> thanks
>> Colin
>>
>> PS - the CA server is a 2003 box that is a domain controller, the IIS
>> server
>> is win2k
>>
>>
>>