In your environment you need to meet the following requirements:

  • An enterprise certificate authority (CA) running Windows Server 2008 R2.
  • A Certificate Enrollment Web Service running Windows Server 2008 R2.

Getting the CA certificate from your CA:
  1. In your web browser, visit the URL http:// with /certsrv to go to the certificate authority.
  2. Enter the User Name and Password.
    The Windows server welcome page opens.
  3. Select the task Download a CA certificate, certificate chain, or CRL.
  4. IMPORTANT: Choose BASE 64 as Encoding method.
  5. Click Download CA certificate.
    You will receive a file with the CA certificate.