How-to create a request, install & bind a 3rd party SSL certificate on Windows Server 2008 Server Core

Purpose: The aim of this document is to provide step by step procedures on creating a certificate request, installing and binding a 3rd party SSL certificate on a Windows Server 2008 Server Core installation system. This document assumes that you have already installed IIS 7.0 and enabled IIS Remote Management.

Requirements

• IIS Manager
• IIS Management Console
• Remote Desktop
• SSL Certificate

3rd party SSL certificate installation and binding on Windows 2008 Server Core

This post is courtesy of Jorge Ovando Zalapa.

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How-To make a Certificate Request in Windows 2008 R2 Server Core

Credit for the following answer goes to my sys/network admin John Kauffman and to Experts-Exchange guru Paranormastic:

certreq -new c:\temp\request.inf c:\temp\certrequest.txt
certutil -f -addstore My c:\temp\certname.cer

If you have problems, you may need to reassociate the private key. Try this:
certutil -dump certname.cer | more
(search for “Serial Number” and substitute below)
certutil -repairstore My %SerialNumber%
certutil -store My %SerialNumber%

Reference: How to make a Certificate Request on a Windows Server Core VM 
(link requires an Experts-Exchange account)

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