Who is this article for?

Administrators who want to learn about creating an application user account.

Administrative access to the web server is required.

This article details how to create a Self-Signed AAL certificate for standard authentication and Active Directory (AD).

1. IIS Manager

1.1. Creating a certificate

To create a certificate:

1. Select the server node in the tree view and double-click the Server Certificates feature in the list view:

2. Click Create Self-Signed Certificate in the Actions pane.

3. Enter a friendly name for the new certificate.
4. Click OK.

You now have a self-signed certificate, which can be used for server-side HTTP SSL encryption and server identity authentication. The certificate is marked for Server Authentication use, meaning it is intended to be used by a server to establish a secure connection with a client and to verify the server's identity to the client during the SSL/TLS handshake process.

1.2. Creating an SSL binding

To create a binding:

1. Select Default Web Site in the tree view.
2. Right-click.
3. Select Edit bindings.
4. Click Add to add your new SSL binding to the site.

5. Select https in the Type drop-down list. Select the self-signed certificate you created in the previous section from the SSL Certificate drop-down list and then click OK.

Further reading

• Creating an application user account - Standard authentication
• Upgrading and configuring databases in the MS SQL server - Standard authentication
• Setting up the Web Server (IIS) - Standard authentication
• Installing the client - Standard authentication
• Installing client add-ins - Standard authentication
• Installing a custom logo - Standard authentication
• Creating a standard Windows user - Standard authentication
• Installating and configuring the Web Service (IIS) - Standard authentication
• Activating WCF - Standard authentication