How do you install a certificate in a PFX file in to the personal container of the NT-AUTHORITY\NetworkService?

Question

I have a .PXF file used to strongly name several of our .NET assemblies. VS2010/MSBUILD seems to expect this to be in the personal container for the user account running VS

Answer 1

Answer Courtesey of Richard Reposed from serverfault

You need to open the Network Service certificate store, and add it.

To open the store:

• From Start | Run: mmc.exe
• File | Add/Remove Snapins and select Certificates then Add.
• When prompted for the type of account select Service Account
• Select local/remote computer as required
• Select any service that's running as Network Service ("Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" run as Network Service by default)
• Finish the wizard and OK to close the add/remove dialog.
• On the applicable catrgory right click and select add tasks to find the import etc. operations.