Need to generate a CSR for a new Lync 2013 Edge server

Question

I am upgrading my Lync 2010 Edge to 2013. Part of the process is exporting all the certificates on the 2010, some public, and eventually importing them into my 2013 Edge. I have a problem with one certificate that was generated by our internal CA for the
2010 server itself named servername.domain.local. Since my new Edge will be renamed to the same name as the old Edge, I was planning on exporting this certificate but the private key can't be exported. The option is grayed out.
I need to therefore figure out how to get a certificate on my new Edge. No Lync software has been installed yet. What is the best way to generate a CSR so I can manually create a certificate on my internal CA. Since I don't have access to the internal CA
from the DMZ, I need to do it this way. I am thinking maybe the MMC but maybe Windows PowerShell? Once I get the CSR generated, I will figure out how to create a certificate on my internal CA.
I know I can do it during the Lync install but I wanted to have it ready on the server when installing.

Answer 1

The option is most likely grayed out, because the private key was not marked as exportable.
Now, you can either request the certificate by using the Deployment Tool and requesting the certificates, selecting offline and then manually copying the CSR to your Internal CA (and the certificate back)
Or you can use Powershell and do a Request-CsCertificate (see here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg425723.aspx)
Try something like this: Request-CsCertificate -New -Type Internal -ComputerFqdn "lyncedge.domain.com" -FriendlyName "Internal Edge"
-Template jcila -PrivateKeyExportable $True -DomainName "edge.domain.com" -Output C:\path\test.req​
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