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Verify Your Approval and Download Your Certificate and Certificate Chain

Use the same IIS web server and web browser from which you submitted the request to verify the status of your certificate request. If your certificate is approved, download both the certificate and the certificate chain to your IIS web 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 your web browser you used to request your certificate.
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 View the status of a pending certificate request.

   A list of your certificate requests appears.

4. Click the link for your certificate request.

   The Certificate Issued screen appears. If it does not, contact the certificate administrator in your organization for more information.

5. Click the Base 64 Encoded option button.
6. Click all the following links and save the files to your web server:
   • Copy Certificate. (downloads a *.cer file)
   • Copy Certificate Chain (downloads a *.p7b file)

   Your certificate is downloaded.