where is client certificate on server usually installed?

Hello,

I need to write a service and a configuration program for windows 2000
and windows 2003 servers that can use a digital certificate for client
authentication (for https transactions). In desktop environment, I
would expect the end-user to have installed the client certificate in
the personal store (or user's My certificate store).

In which certificate store do the server administrators typically
install the client certificates? Is it in the Administrator account's
personal certificate store? Would an import functionality to install
the certificate in the machine's personal store be useful?

Can anybody please comment.

Regards.

.

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