Installing certificates and enabling services

After you've generated a certificate request and have obtained a certificate from a CA, you will need to install the certificate on your server using the Import-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet. This recipe will show you how to install certificates issued from a certificate authority and how to assign services to the certificate using the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

Let's see how to install and enable services using the following steps:

1. Let's say that you have requested and downloaded a certificate from an Active Directory Enterprise CA and downloaded the file to the root of the c:\ drive. First, read the certificate data into a variable in the shell using the following command:

   $certificate = Get-Content -Path c:\certnew.cer '
   -Encoding Byte '
   -ReadCount 0
   

2. Next, we can import the certificate and complete the pending request:

   Import-ExchangeCertificate -FileData $certificate
   

3. Now that the certificate is installed...