Using MMC to request a new certificate

The most common way that I see administrators interface with the certificates on their systems is through the MMC snap-in tool. MMC is short for Microsoft Management Console, and by using MMC, you can administer just about anything in the operating system. Though this is perhaps a greatly underutilized tool, I only generally see it being opened for a few select tasks. Requesting certificates is one of those tasks.

We are going to use the MMC console on a new server that we have in our network. There is a new certificate template that has been created, and we would like to issue one of these certificates to our new web server.

Getting ready

A Server 2016 Enterprise Root CA server is online and running in our network. On it, we have configured a new certificate template called IPsec Certificate. The steps have been taken to publish this template so that it may be requested from computers in our network. We are now working from a brand new web server that...