Unless you’ve been living underground for the last few weeks, you should have already heard that Windows server 2012 RTM is available :-).  Last time I blogged about this operating system it was still named Windows server 8 Developer Preview. I will describe in this post how IIS 8 supports multiple SSL website certificates on a single IP and port, this feature is called Server Name Indication (SNI), and supported under Apache since version 2.2.12… I will also talk about the new features provided in Windows server 2012 for exporting/importing certificates in the PFX file format, in order to deploy certificates on a Webserver farm.
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We will show in this post how to create a SAN certificate for IIS 7 using an Enterprise PKI. This kind of certificate permits you to host multiple SSL sites on a single server. To achieve this with a powershell script we will use the PSRemoting and the IIS CmdLets.

We launch the script from the server where we administrate the PKI with ADCS RSAT. We will use PSRemoting for many things: Before sending the certificate request to the Certificate Authority in order to create the CSR on the IIS server. Once the certificate is issued we will retrieve it and install it to the IIS 7 server certificate store. Finally we will configure IIS 7 to use this certificate on the default web site.
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