Change the friendlyname of a certificate

How can you change the friendlyname of a certificate with PowerShell? Easy.
First we set the location.

Set-Location cert:

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Now select where the certificate is stored.

cd .\\LocalMachine\My

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Look at your certificates and select the one you want to change.

Get-ChildItem

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Copy the Thumbprint, in my example I’m using a variable. Also provide your friendlyname.

	$Thumbprint = xxx # Provide Thumbprint of cert
	$cert = gci $Thumbprint
	$cert.FriendlyName = "YourFriendlyName"

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And that’s it. We changed the friendlyname.