Requesting a signed certificate from a Windows 2000 certificate authority

You can request a signed certificate from a Windows 2000 certificate authority.

Steps

1. Navigate to the Windows 2000 certificate authority in your web browser.

   The URL is http://host/certsrv

   host is the IP address or fully-qualified host name of the Windows 2000 server hosting the certification authority.

2. Choose Advanced request and click Next.
3. Choose Submit a certificate request to this CA using a form and click Next.
4. Under identifying information, type your name, e-mail address, company name, department name, state (as a two-letter abbreviation), and country (as a two-letter code).
   Note: All symbols, such as ampersand (&) or at (@) symbols, should be spelled out in or omitted from the company and department names.

5. Under Intended Purpose, choose Server Authentication Certificate.
6. In the Key size box, type 1024.
7. Select Mark keys as exportable.
   Note: If you do not complete this step, you will not be able to export the certificate and private key into separate files, a step that is required during installation.

8. Click Submit.

   After the certificate authority notifies you that your certificate has been issued, you can install the certificate.