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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After configuring WinRM on a Windows 2008R2 server we launched the following command in order to test the installation:

winrm id -r:%machinename%

Unfortunately we had this error message:
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In this post we will describe how to configure a Windows 2008 Event Collector server to process events forwarded from Windows XP and Windows 2003 clients. The event forwarding system (aka syslog) relies on WinRM, there are two versions of the WinRM service: v1.1 and v2.0, each version of the service listen on a different default port (HTTP 80 + HTTPS 443 for WinRM 1.1, HTTP 5985 + HTTPS 5986 for WinRM 2.0). That is why you should upgrade WinRM 1.1 to WinRM v2.0 on your XP and 2003 clients in order to use event forwarding. For more details abour WinRM I suggest you read this article.

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