If you have successfully installed your certificate, but you wish to make a backup with the private key, if you do not have full admin rights, Windows will not allow it. The option for exporting the private key is then greyed out.

You must give your self access to the MachineKeys Folder: Read more »

After receiving a certificate from my SSL provider, I noticed I couldn’t import the certificate in IIS. A bit strange, because I still had a pending request. I could just add the certificate to my store, but I needed the Private Key.

Whatever I did, nothing seemed to work… so I used the following procedure to restore the Read more »