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Create a Certificate Request for a Server Certificate on an IIS Web Server

Requesting a certificate is the first step in the process of creating a Policy Server signing certificate. Any IIS web server in your organization can request a certificate. Using an IIS web server hosted on your Policy Server is more convenient, because it eliminates exporting the certificates to the Policy Server.

Follow these steps:

Note: This procedure provides one possible example of how to configure this feature using third-party tools. CA Technologies did not develop nor provide these tools. These tools are subject to change at any time by the third party without notice. Use this procedure as a guide for configuring this feature in your specific environment. The actual steps that are required in your situation could be different from the steps that are shown here.

1. Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Under Connections, click the web server.
3. Double-click Server Certificates.

   A list of certificates appears.

4. Under Actions, click Create Certificate request...

   The Create Certificate wizard appears.

5. Complete the wizard. Save the certificate request to a local file. We recommend using a distinctive name that is easy to remember. For example, ps_wsfed_signing_certificate_request.txt

   The certificate request is created.