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Walkthrough: Submit a request to a public certification authority

Topic Last Modified: 2009-07-09

To submit a request to a public certification authority

  1. Open the output file.

  2. Copy and paste the contents of the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) into the appropriate text box beginning with:

    -----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

    And it ends with:

    -----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST

  3. If prompted, specify the following:

    • Microsoft as the server platform.
    • IIS as the version.
    • Web Server as the usage type.
    • PKCS7 as the response format.

  4. When the public CA has verified your information, you will receive an e-mail message containing text required for your certificate.

  5. Copy the text from the e-mail message and save the contents in a text file (.txt) on your local computer.

  6. Download the root CA chain of the public CA and install it on the local computer store of the Edge Server.