Hello! There's a freshly installed Windows 2008R2 Server in my test environment. I'd like to test Windows Certification Services so I did the following: 1) installed Standalone Root CA as described here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772393.aspx#BKMK_BS1 ( Log on to TEST_CA_ROOT1 as an administrator. Start the Add Roles Wizard. On the Select Server Roles page, select the Active Directory Certificate Services check box, and then click Next two times. On the Select Role Services page, select the Certification Authority check box, and then click Next. On the Specify Setup Type page, click Standalone, and then click Next. On the Specify CA Type page, click Root CA, and then click Next. On the Set Up Private Key and Configure Cryptography for CA pages, you can configure optional settings, including cryptographic service providers. However, for basic testing purposes, accept the default values by clicking Next twice. In the Common name for this CA box, type the common name of the CA, RootCA1, and then click Next. On the Set the Certificate Validity Period page, accept the default validity duration for the root CA, and then click Next. On the Configure Certificate Database page, accept the default values or specify other storage locations for the certificate database and the certificate database log, and then click Next.) 2) installed CA Web Enrollment service (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732895.aspx) 3) set up https bindings in IIS using Root CA certificate (this is the only one I have on my test computer after I have installed the two CA services) as described here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759140.aspx The result: neither https://localhost nor https://localhost/certsrv is not displayed - "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage", although HTTP://localhost/certsrv works perfect. The qustion is: what am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance, Michael

Michael, You can ask this in security forum to get the better responses http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserversecurity/threads Regards, _Prashant_MCSA|MCITP SA|Microsoft Exchange 2003 Blog - http://prashant1987.wordpress.com Disclaimer: This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties/guarantees and confers no rights.