How to generate a CSR in Microsoft Exchange - Outlook Web Access Server
- Open the Internet Services Manager, and right-click on Default Web Site (or the site hosting your OWA component.) Select Properties.
- Under the Directory Security tab, click Server Certificate.
- Click next. Select 'Create a new certificate' and hit next. select 'Prepare the request now, but send it later' and hit next.
- Select 'Prepare the request now, but send it later' and hit next.
- Enter a name for the certificate that you can identify on your server. Choose a bit-length of 2048. Leave the other boxed un-checked.
- Enter the full legal name of your company. Enter a department such as 'Security' or 'IT' in the organizational unit.
- Enter the fully qualified domain name of your Outlook Web Access (ex. mail.yourdomain.com).
- Enter the location of your organization: Country, State, and City.
- Choose a file name and a location to save your Certificate Signing Requst (CSR). The file should be saved as a text file (.txt)
- Click next to generate the file.
- Now open the CSR file using a text editor such as notepad, and copy and paste the text (including the BEGIN and END tags) into the E-Tugra order form.
