We revealed to you shortly after SP1 that the MOMCertImport tool had a new GUI, which is used to read the certificate serial and write it to the registry so the Health Service knows which certificate to use. But what if we told you that exporting the certificate was no longer necessary?

That’s right! The MOMCertImport tool now actually reads certificates right out of the certificate store. And in our tests, the MOMCertImport UI only displays certificates capable for use in certificate authentication. If you export your cert and delete from the store, and then launch MOMCertImport, the UI comes up empty.

This is great for two reasons - 1) We know longer risk export of the certificate private key to disk and 2) Fewer steps in implementation (which is positive for TCO).

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