Export the root certificate
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1. Open the “Certificates” MMC on the Local Computer account and go to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities 1 store.
2. Right-click on the authority certificate 1 , Go to All Tasks 2 and click Export 3 .
3. When launching the wizard, click Next 1 .
4. Choose export format 1 then click Next 2 .
5. Indicate the location where the certificate will be exported 1 and click Next 2 .
6. Click Finish 1 to start the export.
7. Export is finished, close the message by clicking OK 1 .
You can now deploy the root certificate to all the computers / servers in your infrastructure.
Now that we have the root certificate and that it is deployed on the entire farm, we will see how to generate a certificate.