I was installing my new Exchange 2010 farm during the weekend and I realized that the certificate installation whitepapers\u00a0on the technet does not work,<\/p>\n
\u00a0if you run the\u00a0following command in the exchange shell as it is suggested on the\u00a0technet:<\/p>\n
Import-ExchangeCertificate -Path c:\\certificates\\filename.cer -friendlyname “Contoso CAS01”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n you will get the following error:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument ‘-Path’<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Import-ExchangeCertificate], ParameterBindingException<\/span><\/p>\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Import-ExchangeCertificate<\/span><\/p>\n and if you run the following command <\/span><\/p>\n New-ExchangeCertificate -generaterequest -subjectname “dc=com,dc=contoso,o=Contoso Corporation,cn=exchange.contoso.com” -domainname CAS01,CAS01.exchange.corp.constoso.com,exchange.contoso.com, ,autodiscover.contoso.com -PrivateKeyExportable:$true -path c:\\certrequest_cas01.txt<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n as it’s also suggested on the technet you will get the following error:<\/span><\/p>\n I have decided to write this article\u00a0to help others until the samples on the technet are corrected.\u00a0My examples below\u00a0are tested and working.<\/p>\n Start the Exchange shell as administrator\u00a0from the server where you want to install a certificate, type the following command to create a request file: (Don’t forget to change yourdomain.com<\/span> and yourservername<\/span> with your own names and addresses)<\/em><\/p>\n New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest -Domainname *.yourdamain.com<\/span>, YOURSERVERNAME<\/span> -FriendlyName YOURSERVERNAME.yourdamain.com<\/span> -PrivateKeyExportable $True | Set-Content -Path c:\\certrequest.txt<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n