Certs Backup

"Certs Backup" extracts MOVEit Central's client certificates from its Windows Certificate Store and saves them to two files so they can be saved/sent to a destination for backup purposes. The related "Certs Restore" built-in script is used to restore the certificates in these files.

To use this script, first configure a source-less task with a per-task process that runs this script. Then configure one or more destinations to save the files to their final locations.

An example of a complete task and a recommendation on its use can be found in the "Central Service - Backup - Automated Configuration Replication" documentation.

Input Parameters

• Certs_Password (Required) - The password that will encrypt the output PFX files.
• Certs_Filename_Personal - The filename (no path) of the output PFX file containing the certificates (with private keys) from the My Certs/Personal store. Default value is "CertsPersonal.pfx". Date macros are allowed.
• Certs_Filename_OtherPeople - The filename (no path) of the output PFX file containing the certificates (no private keys) from the Other Certs/Other People store. (Currently used only for SMIME recipients and some AS1/AS2/AS3 certificates.) Default value is "CertsOtherPeople.pfx". Date macros are allowed.

Notes

When MOVEit Central is running as a foreground application, this script will generally not work properly because a different users' Windows Certificate Store will generally be used in foreground mode than when MOVEit Central is running as a service.