{"id":1327,"date":"2014-05-23T08:16:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:05","slug":"how-to-install-letsencrypt-certificate-windows-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"How to Install a Let&#8217;s Encrypt Free SSL Certificate on Windows Server (IIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this upcoming Screencast, we will demonstrate how to install a <a title=\"Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate\" href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let&#8217;s Encrypt SSL certificate<\/a> on Windows Servers running IIS. The demonstration will cover Server 2012 R2, Server 2008 R2, and Server 2016. We will explain in details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the installation and configuration of the Let&#8217;s Encrypt windows ACME client<\/li>\n<li>requesting and installing single domain certificates for multiple sites<\/li>\n<li>requesting and installing a multi domain (SAN) certificate<\/li>\n<li>the process of the automatic certificate renewal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gk-legend\" data-style=\"style3\"><strong>Let&#8217;s Encrypt CA<\/strong>Let\u2019s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). It entered public beta in September 2015 and completed it successfully on April 12th,2016, issuing more than 1.7 million certificates for more than 3.8 million websites. The project is sponsored by Mozilla, Akamai, Cisco, Chrome <a title=\"Let's Encrypt Sponsors\" href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/sponsors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetsEncrypt.png\" alt=\"Letsencrypt Windows Client\" width=\"1026\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetsEncrypt.png 1026w, https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetsEncrypt-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LetsEncrypt-1024x768.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1026px) 100vw, 1026px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this upcoming Screecast, we will demonstrate how to request, install , and renew Letsencrypt certificates on Windows Servers running IIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,326],"tags":[485,487,484,489,488,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}