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Exchange 2010 self signed certificate how to#
To learn how to open the Exchange Management Shell in your on-premises Exchange organization, see Open the Exchange Management Shell. For more information about the Exchange services, see Assign certificates to Exchange Server services. When you create a new self-signed certificate by using the New-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet, you can assign the certificate to Exchange services during the creation of the certificate. To create a certificate request (also known as a certificate signing request or CSR) for a commercial certification authority that's automatically trusted by all clients, servers, and services, see Create an Exchange Server certificate request for a certification authority. What do you need to know before you begin?Įxchange self-signed certificates work well for encrypting communication between internal Exchange servers, but not so well for encrypting external connections, because clients, servers, and services don't automatically trust Exchange self-signed certificates. You can create self-signed certificates certificate in the Exchange admin center (EAC) or in the Exchange Management Shell. However, you can also create additional self-signed certificates that you can use. When you install Exchange Server, a self-signed certificate that's created and signed by the Exchange server itself is automatically installed on the server.
