"Steven Hughes" wrote:

> I have an IIS 6.0 server that was configured with an SSL certificate.  That
> server was moved into a different domain and I am now having trouble applying
> a new SSL certificate to this IIS server. 
>
> The web server cannot seem to talk directly to the certificate server in the
> new domain.  I generated an SSL certificate by browsing to the certificate
> server in IE, but IIS won't import the certificate. 
>
> For grins, I went into the IIS Certificate Wizard on the IIS server and
> selected "Assign an existing certificate".  What appears on the list is the
> certificate for the "old" domain that the server used to be part of.  It
> appears that IIS still "remembers" from whence it received it's original SSL
> certificate and doesn't want to accept anything else now. 
>
> What must be done to convince IIS to import the new certificate?  Do I need
> to reinstall IIS?  Rebuild the server?  Or is there a less-drastic solution?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
> Steven Hughes - MCSD

"Larry" wrote:

> I could be wrong, but I think you have to contact the issuer of the SSL cert
> and have it converted to the new domain.  They will probably charge you for
> this.  The reason I believe this is so is because the domain is encoded in
> the information that was sent to the SSL issuer when it was originally
> requested.  You can't just take SSL certs and throw them around different
> domains.  There might be some special certs that allow this, but they would
> probably cost more.  Contact the SSL issuer and they'll let you know for sure.
> Sorry I can't speak with much more authority...
> -Larry
> "Steven Hughes" wrote:
>
> > I have an IIS 6.0 server that was configured with an SSL certificate.  That
> > server was moved into a different domain and I am now having trouble applying
> > a new SSL certificate to this IIS server. 
> >
> > The web server cannot seem to talk directly to the certificate server in the
> > new domain.  I generated an SSL certificate by browsing to the certificate
> > server in IE, but IIS won't import the certificate. 
> >
> > For grins, I went into the IIS Certificate Wizard on the IIS server and
> > selected "Assign an existing certificate".  What appears on the list is the
> > certificate for the "old" domain that the server used to be part of.  It
> > appears that IIS still "remembers" from whence it received it's original SSL
> > certificate and doesn't want to accept anything else now. 
> >
> > What must be done to convince IIS to import the new certificate?  Do I need
> > to reinstall IIS?  Rebuild the server?  Or is there a less-drastic solution?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Steven Hughes - MCSD