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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 Administrator privileges. Not all users who have accounts on the computer hosting Active Directory Certificate services have sufficient privileges to approve or reject certificates.

If you have certificate administrator privileges on the web server to which your certificate was submitted, use this procedure. Otherwise, ask the certificate administrator to do this approval 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.