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Have your Administrator Approve your Request for a Client Certificate

Certificate administrators approve or reject certificate requests. Certificate administrator privileges are separate from the Administrator privileges in the Windows operating environment. Not all users who have accounts on the computer hosting Active Directory Certificate services have sufficient privileges to approve or reject certificates.

Use this procedure if you have certificate administrator privileges. Otherwise, ask the certificate administrator in your organization to issue the certificate for you.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the web server hosting the Active Directory Certificate services using an account with Certificate administrator privileges.
2. Click Start, Administrative Tools, Certification Authority.

   The certsrv snap-in appears.

3. Click the name of the certification authority, and then click the pending request folder.

   A list of pending certificate requests appears.

4. Right-click the request ID associated with the request for the client certificate.
5. From the context menu, select All Tasks, Issue.

   The certificate is issued.