The free DigiCert Certificate Utility for Windows is a very good an indispensable tool for administrators and a must-have for anyone that uses SSL Certificates for Websites and servers or Code Signing Certificates for trusted software. This is a globally accepted tool that you can used for certificate management and various certificate troubleshooting. It is very easy to configure and a straight-forward approach in the usage.

Follow these Steps to Create Your CSR with the DigiCert Utility

On your Windows Server, download and save the DigiCert Certificate Utility for Windows executable DigiCertUtil.exe
After downloading run the utility file.

certificate utility — Setting up the DigiCert Utility

Launch the DigiCert Certificate Utility for Windows and click SSL (with gold lock), and then, click Create CSR.

On the Create CSR page, enter this information:

Select SSL as the Certificate Type
Common Name: enter the fully qualified domain name (e.g., www.techdirectarchive.com) or you may enter the IP address.
Subject Alternative Names: assuming you are requesting a Multi-Domain (SAN) Certificate, you can enter any SANs e.g (www.techdirectarchive2.com)
Organization: Enter your company’s legally registered name. e.g TechDirectArchive
Department: Optional
City: Enter the city where your company is located.
State: Select the correct state your company is located.
Country: Select the correct country your company is located.
Key Size: In the drop-down list select 2048.

Click the Generate button. You can either click the Copy CSR button to copy the certificate contents to a clipboard like Notepad or you can save to file.

I hope you found this blog post on how to use the DigiCertCertificate Utility for Windows to create a CSR very interesting and helpful. In case you have any questions do not hesitate to ask in the comment section