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<\/a><\/p>\nThe error message is \u201cCertificate not issued (Incomplete)\u201d<\/p>\n
Kudos to Vadims Podans on the Network Steve Forum who has the answer<\/a>. The Exchange 2010 wizard creates the request in a Unicode file. Certificate Services only understands Ansi. You have to open the request file in Notepad and then Save As specifying Ansi encoding. Then it works.<\/p>\n Actually it doesn\u2019t work, but you get a more intelligible error. When you submit the request using certreq you have to specify a template by adding the argument:<\/p>\n -attrib "CertificateTemplate:WebServer"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Podans has that information too.<\/p>\n I realise that the majority of Exchange admins submit certificate requests to commercial authorities rather than internal ones. Still, you would hope that a Microsoft certificate wizard would be compatible with Microsoft\u2019s own certificate server, at least if you check the right box. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve used the holiday break to do some testing on Exchange 2010. I have a virtual network which includes a machine running Microsoft\u2019s Certificate Services. The wizard generates a .req file which you can submit to a certification authority. In my case I submitted to my own certificate server using the certreq command. Here\u2019s what … Continue reading Microsoft Exchange 2010 annoyance: certificate wizard incompatible with certificate services<\/span> \n