There are a variety of ways to create a trusted SSL certificate in the Windows world, but this article will focus on an internal network that has a Windows Server 2008 R2 Certificate Authority and member servers. This guide will show you how to create a custom Microsoft CA SSL certificate template. This can be very useful for VMware environments, where you may need to tweak certificate template properties. IIS has a built-in domain certificate request wizard, but you can’t specify a custom web server certificate template to use. The built-in Web server template in the Microsoft CA is fine and dandy, but you might want to customize the certificate to extend the validity period, increase the key length, allow private key exporting, or a variety of features. Or you may have other enterprise services that can use certificates stored in the Microsoft computer certificate store, such as VMware View 5.1 connection server. Whatever the case may be, the steps below will show you how to create a custom Microsoft CA SSL certificate template in your Microsoft CA, then perform a certificate request using that custom template. Create the Microsoft CA SSL Certificate Template 1. Logon to your Microsoft Root CA and open the Certificate Services MMC. Expand the first Certificate Templates tree, which should reveal more than 30 Certificate Templates. Right click on Web Server, duplicate the template, and then select either template type, but I choose Windows Server 2003 Enterprise. ![]() Jun 30, 2010 Install the certification authority and enroll certificates to hosted cache servers Configure the Web Server certificate template. This scenario applies under the following conditions: CA (Certificate Authority) Server is running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server is. Using this view you can make copies of the templates, which will give you access to most of the options available, by right-clicking a template and choosing:. ![]() The 2008 template gives you more options, and is required if you want to use Suite-B encryption algorithms like elliptical curve. However, the Windows Server 2008 certificate template will NOT work with VMware View 5.1 connection server, so use 2003 instead.
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