Automating Certificate Imports on Microsoft Systems - Certificate Imported but Not Applied

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hi @mobamoba

You should really use a Windows Library to do this.

You are missing an important point. Importing a certificate (thumbprint xx:xx:xx) is not the same as applying it to a service.

If you want to for example apply a certificate to an IIS site you have to use the the thumpbrint.

Lets say you have a binding for domain test.xyz and two certificates for that domain (yy:yyy:yy) IIS will not start using (xx:xx:xx) until you tell it to

review: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/manage/powershell/powershell-snap-in-configuring-ssl-with-the-iis-powershell-snap-in

Also review this article which shows some of the automation you can do: Using Let's Encrypt to secure Windows Remote Desktop connections

Andrei