Home / server / Questions / 430177
Accepted
Matt
Asked: 2012-09-21 01:22:39 +0800 CST

Certificate for Exchange 2010 exports to binary

  • 772

I'm trying to renew our exchange 2010 certificate. I have followed this guide. When I try to open the .req file it is in binary.

Is there a way to convert it to text so I can continue with the guide?

windows

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I've seen this in the GUI (the Exchange Management Console) before.

    To resolve this, I used the Exchange Management Shell instead:

    First, find the thumbprint of the certificate you are about to renew, by issuing:

    Get-ExchangeCertificate

    Copy the Thumbprint and generate a CSR by piping it to the New-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet:

    Get-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint "The Thumbprint goes here" | New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest -KeySize 2048 -PrivateKeyExportable:$true
    • 2