RE: 3rd Party Certificate Pending Request not found

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answered this myself... walked through the rekey a second time and it worked
fine this time around.
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Regards,
Jamie


"thejamie" wrote:

Error: "The pending certificate request for this response file was not found.
This request may be canceled. You cannot install selected response
certificate using this Wizard"

After much trial and tribulation the 3rd party GoDaddy certificate started
working and ran for about two weeks. The next project to hit the board was
creating the side by side installation of Sharepoint 2007. After installing,
the domain servers and clients could no longer log into Sharepoint without
typing in their user name and password each time.

Thinking the certificate was bad again, I read about being able to rekey the
certificate. I was able to do so, but got the same message. Things will
probably be ok if I can figure a way to make the certificate visible to ISA
so that I can reinstall it there.

I think. What should I do?

GoDaddy lists the following: (is this the correct method, that is, reissue?)
You are attempting to install a certificate that does not match the private
key (Pending request) that is currently residing in the Certificate Wizard.
Microsoft IIS 5 only allows you to make one request per site. If you create a
new CSR for the same website, your original request (and private key) will be
overwritten.
If you have a backup of the private key, you can install the certificate via
the MMC if you can restore the request to the REQUEST folder.
Unless you can find the matching private key for the certificate, you will
need to have the certificates reissued

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Regards,
Jamie
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