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Submit Your Certificate Request to a Certificate Authority

After generating your certificate request on an IIS web server, request a certificate from the web server in your organization hosting Active Directory Certificate Services.

Skip this procedure in any of the following situations:

• If you do not use Active Directory Certificate services in your organization.
• You typically submit your certificate requests to an independent, third-party certificate authority.

In any of the previous situations, follow your typical procedures instead.

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 your web browser.
2. Navigate to the following URL:

   https://fully_qualilfied_domain_name_of_server_running_active_directory_certificate_services/certsrv
   

   An example of such a URL is http://certificateauthority.example.com/certsrv.

3. Click Request a certificate.

   The Request a certificate screen appears.

4. Click the advanced certificate request link.
5. Click Submit a certificate request by using a base-64-encoded CMC or PKCS #10 file, or submit a renewal request by using a base-64-encoded PKCS #7 file.

   The Submit a Certificate Request or Renewal Request screen appears.

6. Open the text file containing your certificate request with a text editor. Copy and paste the entire contents of the file into the Saved request field on the screen.
7. Click Submit.

   The certificate pending screen appears.

8. Note the following items for future reference:
   • Your request ID.
   • Use the same browser to verify the status of your request within ten days.

   The request is submitted.