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I need to create a self signed SSL certificate and the install the same certificate on two different web servers. For this specific scenario I have two web servers (Win2K3 w/ II6) in a network load balanced configuration.

I have installed the IIS resource tool kit and can use the SelfSSL tool to make a certificate. However my confusion comes from that the tool only registers the certificate on the current machine. How do I go about extracting the certificate in a form that I can then register it on the other web server?

I am not partial to the SelfSSL tool at all, so if I am going about this entirely wrong I am open to alternative instructions. I have seen instructions on how to generate .cer files using OpenSSL but I was really trying to hold off on install OpenSSL unless I really had to.


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This was the article that got me through.


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Thank you, that was what I needed! –  Jason Whitehorn Oct 14 '08 at 15:03
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