Generating a Certificate Signing Request and Obtaining a Certificate with Microsoft Certreq

To make a certificate available to a Horizon 8 server, you must create a configuration file, generate a certificate signing request (CSR) from the configuration file, and send the signing request to a CA. When the CA returns the certificate, you must import the signed certificate into the Windows local computer certificate store on the Horizon 8 server host, where it joins the previously generated private key.

A CSR can be generated in several ways, depending on how the certificate itself will be generated.