If you are hosting numerous secure servers on a variety of hosts (physical or virtual), you may find that certificate management can be challenging. Each time you add a new IIS host into your infrastructure, you need to ensure all the correct certificates are in place and the correct web binding (binding the certificates to IIS) is in place for each secure site. Additionally, you need to deal with certificate expiry and renewing certificates that expire across each IIS server that utilizes those certificates.
Windows Server 2012 added a new feature known as the Central Certificate Store (CCS). This feature allows certificates to be stored in a central location such as on an SMB file share. You then configure IIS to make use of the central store, rather than using the local certificate stores as you did in the Configure IIS for SSL recipe...
