Importing Signed SSL Certificates through the Configuration Manager

When a CSR has been signed by a Certificate Authority, the resulting certificate chain must be imported to the host where the CSR was generated. If the whole certificate chain is not present in the same file (for example one certificate file for the CA root certificate, one for the SSL certificate itself and possibly additional files for intermediate CA certificates), all certificates in the chain must be added to the trust store before the signed SSL certificate is imported. See Importing Trusted Certificates via the Configuration Manager. Any such imported trusted certificates should be imported in reverse order. That is, starting with the CA root certificate and work upwards the chain to end with the certificate that actually signed the SSL certificate. Imported certificates must be DER or Base64 encoded.

  1. In the Configuration Manager, click Security and then Certificates.
  2. Click Manage Certificates for the host that the CSR was generated for.
  3. Click Import Signed SSL Certificate.
  4. Browse to the file containing the SSL certificate chain and click Import Certificate.
  5. After verifying the contents on the Import Signed Certificate window, click Import.