Installing certificates and enabling services

After you've generated a certificate request and have obtained a certificate from a certificate authority, 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...

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 C:\. First, read the certificate data into a variable in the shell:

   $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, we can enable it for specific services:

   Get-ExchangeCertificate -DomainName mail.contoso.com | 
     Enable-ExchangeCertificate...