Why is the export of .sst certificate format grayed out using certmgr.msc in windows? Can't find the restriction or information anywhere.

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_{Thursday, September 8, 2016 1:39 AM}

The subject says it all.. how can I export certs in .sst format?

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_{Thursday, September 8, 2016 4:57 AM ✅Answered}

Exactly as I said, your blog article shows the same thing - multiple certificates are being selected and then exported. So that is the requirement to enable SST export.

Mark B. Cooper, President and Founder of PKI Solutions Inc., former Microsoft Senior Engineer and subject matter expert for Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS). Known as “The PKI Guy” at Microsoft for 10 years. He is also co-founder of Revocent (revocent.com) and its CertAccord product that offers Linux certificate enrollment from a Microsoft CA. Connect with Mark at https://www.pkisolutions.com

_{Thursday, September 8, 2016 4:47 AM}

Is this just a curiosity question or do you have an actual need for an SST export? I've never come across a need for SST export, but it can be done if you want. You need to select multiple certificates in the certmgr.msc or certlm.msc and then choose All Tasks/Export. It is designed for more than 1 certificate at a time to be exported. So if you are only exporting a single cert it wont be available.

Mark B. Cooper, President and Founder of PKI Solutions Inc., former Microsoft Senior Engineer and subject matter expert for Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS). Known as “The PKI Guy” at Microsoft for 10 years. He is also co-founder of Revocent (revocent.com) and its CertAccord product that offers Linux certificate enrollment from a Microsoft CA. Connect with Mark at https://www.pkisolutions.com

_{Thursday, September 8, 2016 4:54 AM}

Thank you Mark for the quick reply. This is a real need, I can reach out to our Microsoft Tam, but I need to add our root and intermediate CA certs to office365. 

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2014/12/15/how-to-configure-smime-in-office-365/

_{Thursday, September 8, 2016 5:00 AM}

Ok i feel stupid, totally missed that. Thank you!