Re: Can I share a Web Server certificate by export with provate key and import to another server

From: Norman (NormanN_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:01:58 -0400

Thanks Brian- you answered everything that I want to know - appreciated !!

"Brian Komar [MVP]" <bkomar@nospam.identit.ca> wrote in message
news:MPG.1da630027bdcec79896b1@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Is the certificate from an internal CA (owned by your company). If yes,
> you can do this (export is enabled by default), but it does not get you
> anything.
> Any encryption for SSL is performed with a symmetric key generated for
> the SSL session, protected by the Web server's SSL certificate. Even if
> you do clustering or NLBS, if you do fail over, you will have to
> establish a new SSL session.
> If the certificate is from a commercial provider, I doubt that the CA
> provider allows for this in the small print you read (lol) when you
> requested the certificate
>
> Brian
>
> In article <eGIM4rRxFHA.2232@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>,
> ngeorge@microsoft.discussion.com says...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have two IIS server at two location , all having the same content . If
>> I
>> have a certificate on Server A , can I export both the certificate and
>> its
>> private key and re-import to Server B ? In other words , can I share a
>> web
>> server certificate ?
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
>>

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