Walkthrough: Submit a request to a public certification authority

Topic Last Modified: 2009-07-09

To submit a request to a public certification authority

Open the output file.
Copy and paste the contents of the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) into the appropriate text box beginning with:
```
-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
```
And it ends with:
```
-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST
```
If prompted, specify the following:
- Microsoft as the server platform.
- IIS as the version.
- Web Server as the usage type.
- PKCS7 as the response format.
When the public CA has verified your information, you will receive an e-mail message containing text required for your certificate.
Copy the text from the e-mail message and save the contents in a text file (.txt) on your local computer.
Download the root CA chain of the public CA and install it on the local computer store of the Edge Server.

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