I had a need to create a certificate for a new webserver. I have Linux machines available on my Windows dowmain that has a certificate authority advertised in active directory.

On your linux machine (that has openssl)
openssl req -new -sha256 -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout webserver1.key -out webserver1.csr

Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
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writing new private key to ‘webserver1.key’
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You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter ‘.’, the field will be left blank.
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Country Name (2 letter code) [XX]:US
State or Province Name (full name) []:NO
Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]:Town
Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]:Winks
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:IT
Common Name (eg, your name or your server’s hostname) []:webserver1.localdomain.local
Email Address []:support@localdomain.local

Please enter the following ‘extra’ attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:

Copy the CSR to your clipboard
nano webserver1.csr
Copy all of the text including the “–BEGIN” and “–END”

Create the certificate request on your CA

https://certificateauthority/certsrv
Create a new request – Advanced certificate request
Paste the copied text
Select webserver for the certificate template
Submit

I always download as a base64 encoded certificate. I then copied the .cer to my linux box to run the next steps.

On your linux machine create the PFX
openssl pkcs12 -inkey webserver1.key -in webserver1.cer -export -out webserver1.pfx

Enter Export Password:
Verifying – Enter Export Password:

Copy the PFX back to your window machine, double click, enter the passcode, and away you go.