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How can a user request an EFS recovery certificate?
John Savill
January 8, 2000
1 Min Read
A. To request a EFS certificate you first need the domain to have a trustedlist of Certificate Authorities and the user needs to be a domainAdministrator.
Start the MMC console (Start - Run - MMC.EXE)
From the Console menu select 'Add/Remove Snap-in...'
Click Add
Select Certificates and click Add
Select 'My user account' and click Finish
Click Close
Click OK to the main dialog
Expand the Certificates root and right click on Personal
Select 'Request New Certificate' from the 'All Tasks' menu
Click Next to the Certificate Request Wizard
Select 'EFS Recovery Agent' and click Next
Enter a friendly name and description. Click Next
Click Finish the summary dialog
Click 'Install Certificate'. Click OK
You will now have a File Recovery certificate under the PersonalCertificatesfolder.
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