To create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for a Small Business Server 2008, you must complete the actions in this guide on the server where the SSL certificate will be installed.

NOTE: Verify that the Certification Authority snap-in and the Certificates snap-in are not open in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). If you run the Add a Trusted Certificate Wizard while the snap-ins are open, the wizard may not finish successfully.

Step 1:

1. You have to open the Windows SBS Console first. To open it, click Start, click All Programs, click Windows Small Business Server, click Windows SBS Console.

2. Go to Network in the Task Pad and click on Connectivity.

3. Here you'll have to select Add a trusted certificate.



NOTE: You must set up your Internet address before you run this wizard. If you have not run the Internet Address Management Wizard, you receive an error message. Click OK, return to the Home page, and then click Set up your Internet address in the Getting Started Tasks. When your Internet address is set up successfully, restart this wizard.

Step 2:

3. The wizard will open. Review the information on the Welcome page, and then click Next.



4. On the Get the certificate page, click I want to buy a certificate from a certificate provider, and then click Next.



5. Verify the information that is used to generate the request for the certificate, and change any of the information that is not correct. If all of the information is correct, click Next. If any of the information that is used to purchase a certificate is incorrect, the only way to change the information is to purchase another certificate.

Step 3:

6. Windows SBS 2008 generates the encoded information that the certificate authority requires. On the Generate a certificate request page, click Copy, and then paste the information into the space that is provided on the certificate authority's Web site, or save the encoded information to a file. By default, it is saved as “SBSCertRequest.txt” in the My Documents directory.