Follow these steps to request a new certificate using the MMC console:
- Open Command Prompt on our new web server and type mmc. Then press Enter. Alternatively, you could open MMC from the Start screen.
- Now inside the MMC console, click on the File menu, then on Add/Remove Snap-in....
- Choose Certificates from the list of available snap-ins and click on the Add button. This will bring a new window with some more choices about the certificates snap-in.
- First, we need to choose whether we are opening the user certificate repository or the Computer certificate repository. I don't generally see service account used in the field. The selection here will depend on what type of certificate you are requesting. For our example, we are ...