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Export an Exchange Certificate

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

You can use the Export Exchange Certificate Wizard to export an existing Exchange Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

Prerequisites

The Client Access server role has been installed and at least one certificate is installed on your Client Access server.

What Do You Want to Do?

  • Use the EMC to export an Exchange certificate
  • Use the Shell to export an Exchange certificate

Use the EMC to export an Exchange certificate

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Client Access server security settings" entry in the Client Access Permissions topic.

  1. In the console tree, click Server Configuration.
  2. Select the server that contains the certificate, and then select the certificate you want to export.
  3. In the action pane, click Export Exchange Certificate.
  4. On the Export Exchange Certificate page, select the certificate you want to export. The services that are checked are currently assigned to the certificate.
  5. When you click Export, the Progress Page will confirm your selections and try to export the certificate.
  6. The Completion page will display the status of the request together with the syntax of the Shell cmdlet needed to export the certificate.

Use the Shell to export an Exchange certificate

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Client Access server security settings" entry in the Client Access Permissions topic.

This example exports the Exchange certificate.

Export-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint 5113ae0233a72fccb75b1d0198628675333d010e -BinaryEncoded:$true -Path c:\certificates\export.pfx -Password:(Get-Credential).password