Starting the Certificates snap-in

You use the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Certificates snap-in to manage public key certificates

If you are an administrator of a computer, or a domain administrator, when you add Certificates to your MMC console you have the option of managing certificates that are issued to one of the following:

• Yourself (My user account option)
• Your computer (Computer account option)
• Local services (Service account option)

If you are a user, when you add Certificates to your MMC console, you can manage certificates only for your user account.

A separate instance of Certificates must be loaded for each entity for which you are managing certificates.

See also:

• To manage certificates for your user account
• To manage certificates for a computer
• To manage certificates for a service