Self Signed Certificate With Powershell
Powershell makes generating a new self-signed certificate quite easy. With one simple command, you can have one installed on your machine. A PFX file can be exported for other usages.
Creates a new self-signed certificate
You need to run PowerShell as an administrator, otherwise it will throw an “Access denied” error.
$certificateDnsName = "your.dns.name"
$certificateStoreLocation = "cert:\LocalMachine\My"
New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName $certificateDnsName -CertStoreLocation $certificateStoreLocationGenerate a PFX file
$certificateDnsName = "your.dns.name"
$certificateStoreLocation = "cert:\LocalMachine\My"
$pfxPassword = "yourpasswordgenerator"
$pfxLocation = "C:\your_pfx_name.pfx"
$newSelfSignedCertificateResult = New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName $certificateDnsName -CertStoreLocation $certificateStoreLocation
$secureString = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $pfxPassword -Force -AsPlainText
$certificatePath = Join-Path -Path $certificateStoreLocation -ChildPath $newSelfSignedCertificateResult.Thumbprint
Get-ChildItem -Path $certificatePath | Export-PfxCertificate -FilePath $pfxLocation -Password $secureString