server certificate from cert service

Greetings
I have an IIS website that I need to enable SSL for. I am familiar with the
process of generating a certificate request from IIS and I have done that
and generated a certreq.txt file. For this we didn't need a verisign
certificate so we installed certificates services on a Windows 2003 box as a
standalone CA. I copied the file over to the CA server and had it generate a
certificate, no problem. However what I can't figure out is how to get it to
generate a .cer file that I can copy back to the web server and install in
IIS. I'm not sure how to complete the process once the CA server has
generated a certificate. With verisign I always got a file back that I
installed on the web server. What am I missing here?
thanks
Colin

PS - the CA server is a 2003 box that is a domain controller, the IIS server
is win2k

RE: server certificate from cert service

Hey Colin,

You need to export the file to a .cer file from the CA server. See the
"Generating Certificates Manually in the Certification Authority Snap-In"
topic in Managing Microsoft Certificate Services and SSL at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv /technologies/iis/maintain/featusability/c06iis.mspx. Hopefully that helps.

Susie

"Colin Bondi" wrote:

> Greetings
> I have an IIS website that I need to enable SSL for. I am familiar with the
> process of generating a certificate request from IIS and I have done that
> and generated a certreq.txt file. For this we didn't need a verisign
> certificate so we installed certificates services on a Windows 2003 box as a
> standalone CA. I copied the file over to the CA server and had it generate a
> certificate, no problem. However what I can't figure out is how to get it to
> generate a .cer file that I can copy back to the web server and install in
> IIS. I'm not sure how to complete the process once the CA server has
> generated a certificate. With verisign I always got a file back that I
> installed on the web server. What am I missing here?
> thanks
> Colin
>
> PS - the CA server is a 2003 box that is a domain controller, the IIS server
> is win2k
>
>
>