Re: Generate SSL certificate request from ISA server

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From: Daniel Peterson (pythas_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:25:51 -0900

The commercial certificate authorities want me to generate the certificate
request to send to them, which doesn't appear to be possible directly from
the ISA server. I'm not using Microsoft's CA product.

I guess what I'm asking is this:

Can ISA generate an SSL certificate request directly (which the CA I'm
dealing with requires), or do I need to generate them from a different
machine and export/import the certicates??

"Mark Renoden [MSFT]" <markreno@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:OljYtt4IFHA.1304@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Daniel
>
> I'm not completely clear which server you're suggesting you install IIS
> on.
>
> If you're talking about a Certificate Authority that you manage and it has
> the IIS bits installed on it, you can browse to the /certsrv virtual
> directory on that CA server and request a web server certificate directly
> from a web browser on the ISA Server.
>
> External certificate authorities such as Thwart have their own mechanisms
> for certificate requests.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Kind regards
> --
> Mark Renoden [MSFT]
> Windows Platform Support Team
> Email: markreno@online.microsoft.com
>
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>
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>
>
> "Daniel Peterson" <pythas@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uR5Qhu0IFHA.2640@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there not a way to generate a SSL certificate request from the ISA
>> server, without any other software installed?
>>
>> I'm trying to get a commercial SSL cert, and don't see any way to
>> generate the request without installing IIS (which seems like a TERRIBLE
>> idea).
>>
>
>

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