Install SSL certificate programmatically using Microsoft.Web.Administration

Question

So the Microsoft.Web.Administration API is very easy to use to create HTTP and HTTPS bindings for sites:

using (ServerManager manager = new          


        

Answer 1

Adding to Taylor Bird's comment but using powershell:

    ...
Write-Verbose ("Remove old certificate [ {0} ]... " -f $SiteHttpsBinding.GetAttributeValue("certificateHash"))
$BindingMethod=$SiteHttpsBindings.Methods["RemoveSslCertificate"]
$BindingMethodInstance=$BindingMethod.CreateInstance()
$BindingMethodInstance.Execute()
Write-Verbose ("Add new certificate [ {0} ]..." -f $AfterThumbprint)
$BindingMethod=$SiteHttpsBindings.Methods["AddSslCertificate"]
$BindingMethodInstance=$BindingMethod.CreateInstance()
$BindingMethodInstance.Input.SetAttributeValue("certificateHash", $AfterThumbprint)
$BindingMethodInstance.Input.SetAttributeValue("certificateStoreName", "My")
$BindingMethodInstance.Execute()
...

The above code snippet is useful for updating certificates without needing to remove the whole binding. I've used it for adding and updating ssl bindings on local and remote machines.

Thanks Mr. Bird for supplying the WinAPI reference.