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In Internet Information Services Manager, you're given the option between the Personal and the Web Hosting certificate store when creating or importing a certificate.
What's the difference?
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The key difference between Web Hosting store and Personal store is that Web Hosting store is designed to scale to higher numbers of certificates. For lightweight scenarios (when you have less than 20-30 certificates) you can use any, Personal or WebHosting store.
Right-click on the highlighted certificate(s) and click Cut (or Copy). In the MMC Console, in the console tree, right-click on the Web Hosting folder and click Paste. The certificate(s) should now appear in the Web Hosting, Certificates folder (Web Hosting store).
Web Hosting Tips. An SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate is a small data file that provides an extra layer of security between a website and a browser. An SSL certificate both serves to authenticate the website's identity, and to encrypt any information provided through the website.
From the Windows Start menu, find Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager and open it (click Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager). In the Connections pane, locate and click the server. In the server Home page (center pane) under the IIS section, double-click Server Certificates.
from IIS.NET:
The key difference between Web Hosting store and Personal store is that Web Hosting store is designed to scale to higher numbers of certificates.
For lightweight scenarios (when you have less than 20-30 certificates) you can use any, Personal or WebHosting store.
When you have 30+ different certificates, you should use Web Hosting store for performance reasons.
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addition to Sam.Rueby's Answer:
There is not a StoreName enumeration value for Web Hosting, but Web Hosting store can be accessed by using StoreName value as "WebHosting".
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