Creating Certificate Request in IIS 7.0

There will be times when you’ll need to create a certificate request for a public facing website created with IIS 7.0. In our case this was for a public facing SharePoint site. The instructions are below.

• Open IIS Manager
• Highlight Server Name and Double Click Server Certificates

• Select Create Certificate Request in the ‘Actions’ Menu

• Fill in the fields that appear and click Next

• Select the ‘Cryptographic Service Provider’, this can be left as default in most cases
• Select the ‘Bit Length’, this usually needs to be a minimum of 2048 with some CA’s

• Select location where your csr will be saved and click ‘Finish’

And That’s It!!!