Self-Signed Certificate and Trusted Root

Sometimes we generate own SSL certificates, for example internal use: development or testing. It saves us time and money. But usually browsers or other applications does not accept Self-Signed certificates.

This problem can be fixed easy. All what we need is to add certificate to the Trusted Root Certication Authorities. Sure, you should have admin permissions to do these steps:

1) Open mmc console.

2) Add Snap-in for Certificates.

3) Open Trusted Root Certication Authorities/Certiciates in Certificates.

4) Right click and select Import, then select your .cer or .crt file and click Next.

5) Select to put it under Trusted Root Certification Authorities, click Next and Finish.

Sometimes it requires reboot, but probably does not.

Hope this helps!