Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

728 Part VIII: Securing SharePoint Products and Technologies
To submit the certificate request, and obtain the server certificate from the
Certificate Server
If you use Microsoft Certificate Services, use the following steps to request a
server certificate from the certificate server.
Note The following procedure is based on Microsoft Certificate Services
installed on Windows Server 2003. The user interface will be slightly different
if you are using Microsoft Certificate Services installed on Windows
2000 Server.
If you use another certificate authority (CA), use the steps supplied by
the CA provider.
1. In your Web browser, type the URL of the CA server. Next, on the Welcome
page, click Request a Certificate.
2. On the Request a Certificate page, click Advanced certificate request. On the
Advanced Certificate Request page, click Submit a certificate request by
using a base-64-encoded CMC or PKCS #10 file, or submit a renewal
request by using a base-64-encoded PKCS #7 file.
3. Leave the Web browser open on the Submit a Certificate Request or Renewal
Request page, and do the following:
a. In a text editor such as Notepad, open file certreq.txt in the directory
:\Certificates\. This is the directory that
you created in the previous section.
b. Select and copy the contents of the file, and then close the text editor.
4. Return to the Submit a Certificate Request or Renewal Request page. Paste the
copied text into the Saved Request box, and then click Submit.
5. On the Certificate Issued page, do the following:
a. Leave the DER encoded option selected.
b. Click Download certificate.
c. In the File Download dialog box, click Save.
d. In the Save As dialog box, navigate to :\Certificates
\.
e. Click Save.