A Collection of certificate deployment functions intended for use with Posh-ACME. But the functions should be generic enough to work with any certificate.
- IIS 7.0+
- IIS FTP services
- Remote Desktop Session Host
- Remote Desktop Gateway
- WinRM
- Exchange (tested on 2019)
- Network Policy Server (NPS)
- Remote Access SSTP
The latest release version can found in the PowerShell Gallery or the GitHub releases page. Installing from the gallery is easiest using Install-Module from the PowerShellGet module. See Installing PowerShellGet if you don't already have it installed.
# install for all users (requires elevated privs)
Install-Module -Name Posh-ACME.Deploy -Scope AllUsers
# install for current user
Install-Module -Name Posh-ACME.Deploy -Scope CurrentUserNOTE: If you use PowerShell 5.1 or earlier, Install-Module may throw an error depending on your Windows and .NET version due to a change PowerShell Gallery made to their TLS settings. For more info and a workaround, see the official blog post.
To install the latest development version from the git main branch, use the following PowerShell command. This method assumes a default PSModulePath environment variable.
# install latest dev version
iex (irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rmbolger/Posh-ACME.Deploy/main/instdev.ps1)An IIS website tends to be the most common certificate target for this module. We'll assume you have already created a cert using Posh-ACME and want to deploy it to the default site in IIS and bound to all IPs and port 443 with no host header or SNI requirement. (SNI and host headers for TLS require IIS 8.0+)
First, make sure your PowerShell session is running as admin. For the initial deployment, you can do something like this which will import the cert into the LocalMachine\My certificate store and add/update the site's https binding with the selected certificate. The -Verbose flag is optional but can be a nice way to see what's happening. If you need to customize the binding parameters, check the function's help with Get-Help Set-IISCertificate.
Set-PAOrder example.com
Get-PACertificate | Set-IISCertificate -SiteName 'Default Web Site' -VerboseYour Posh-ACME renewal script might look something like this.
Set-PAOrder example.com
if ($cert = Submit-Renewal) {
$cert | Set-IISCertificate -SiteName 'Default Web Site' -RemoveOldCert
}Submit-Renewal only returns a certificate object when it successfully renews the certificate. So you generally run it 1-2 times per day and it doesn't do anything until the renewal window has been reached. The -RemoveOldCert parameter will delete the previous certificate from the Windows certificate store after it successfully imports and configures the new one.
The rest of the functions in this module work very similarly. Check the associated parameters using Get-Help <function> for details. If you forget which functions are available, you can list them with Get-Command -Module Posh-ACME.Deploy.
All of the currently included functions are tied to Windows services and related modules. Generally, you should have Windows PowerShell 5.1 or later (Desktop edition) with .NET Framework 4.7.1 or later which are the same minimum requirements as Posh-ACME.
PowerShell Core support will be dependent on the specific function you're using and whether any dependent modules (WebAdministration, RemoteDesktopServices, etc) are compatible.
See CHANGELOG.md