Generating a certificate request

In order to create a new certificate, you first need to generate a certificate request using either the Exchange Admin Center, or through the Shell using the New-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet. Once you have a certificate request generated, you can then obtain a certificate from an internal Certificate Authority (CA) or from a third-party external CA (recommended). In this recipe, we'll take a look at the process of generating a certificate request from the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

Let's see how to generate a certificate request using the following steps:

1. In this example, we'll generate a request using two Subject Alternative Names (SANs). This will allow us to...