Generating a Certificate Request File Using the Certificate Wizard in IIS 5.0

• Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.0

SUMMARY

The Certificate Wizard that comes with Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 makes managing server certificates easier than ever before. This article describes how to create a certificate request file using the wizard.

The first step you will need to perform to get a server certificate is creating the request file. To generate a new certificate request (to be sent to a certificate authority or CA for processing), perform the following steps:

1. Open the Internet Services Manager (or your custom MMC containing the IIS snap-in).



2. Browse to the site where you want to enable secure communications.



3. Right-click the friendly name of the site and go to properties.



4. Click the Directory Security tab.



5. Under the Secure Communications section, click Server Certificate.



6. This starts the new Web Site Certificate Wizard.



7. Click Next.



8. Choose the Create a New Certificate option and click Next (there should be a slight pause before the next screen appears).



9. Choose the Prepare a New Request but Send it Later option and click Next.



10. Choose a Friendly Name for the site (this can be anything you want it to be, for example, the friendly name of the site in the MMC, or the name of the customer the Web site belongs to).



11. Choose the bit length of the key you want to use and whether you want to use SGC (Server Gated Cryptography), and then click Next.



12. Input your Organization (O) and your Organizational Unit (OU). For example, if your company is called Widgets and you are setting up a Web server for the Sales department, you would enter Widgets for the Organization and Sales for your Organizational Unit. Click Next when complete.



13. Input the common name (CN) for your site. This should be the same name that the user will input when requesting your Web site. For example, if a user inputs http://www.widgets.microsoft.com to access your Web site, then your Common Name would be www.widgets.microsoft.com. When you are complete, click Next.



14. Input you Country/Region, City, and State. It is very important that you do not abbreviate the names of the state or city. When complete, click Next.



15. Enter the contact information for the person responsible for this certificate or Web site. This is usually how the Certificate Authority contacts you, and then click Next.



16. Choose a name for the certificate request file you are about to create. This file will contain all the information you created here, as well as your public key for your site. You can browse the file name if you want. This creates a .txt file when you are complete. The default name for the file is Certreq.txt. When you have finished this step, click Next.



17. You will now be presented with a summary screen of all the information you entered. Make sure all this information is correct, and then click Next.



18. You have now created your certificate request file.

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