Using netsh, bind an SSL certificate to a port number is failing

Question

I have followed the instructions in SSL with Self Hosted WCF Service. When I am trying to bind the certificate on Windows 7 using netsh as described in How to: Conf

Answer 1

The source of the error is that I have taken the ThumbPrint directly from the certificate file of signroot.cert, which is created from the first makecert command needed for creating "Trusted Root Certification Authorities", which is used again to really create(and install) the self-sigend trusted certificate in the second makecert command.

The second makecert command also install the created certificates in the "Certificates (Local Computer) -> Personal -> Certificates node." One has to refresh the currently open MMC again to see the "localhost" certificate and the ThumbPrint need to be taken from this certificates but not from signroot.cert.

If it is still not the case, one might need to install this hotfix from M$. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981506

ref : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winservergen/thread/68452008-a89b-40ba-9927-472efcfafc99