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In an older blog post on Certificate Authorities, I have provided some information about the process to generate Exchange 2007 certificates.  This process has slightly changed in Exchange 2010, and Johan Delimon (pro-exchange.be) has written an excellent article about this : Generating Exchange 2010 Certificates (Exchange Management Shell)

The 2 most important changes are :

the new-exchangecertificate cmd-let no longer supports the -path variable (so requests cannot be written directly to disk)
the 2007 GUI at Digicert still uses the -path parameter, so a new GUI was created to support 2010 certificate requests

In short, the updated procedure is :

generate the powershell command using an updated gui at Digicert : https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/exchange2010.htm
Save the exchange certificate request into a $Data variable
Write the contents of the $Data variable to a file  (Set-Content -path “c:\request.req” -Value $Data)

Then, …