Android OS and SSL root certificates

There are many articles and group posts regarding the installation of a Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Certificate Authority root certificate on an Android tablet or phone. Very few provide a simple answer to this problem.   I have been able to load a root certificate on all my Android devices (this includes the Motorola Xoom , Asus Transformer and Cisco Cius) very simply by using this method. I hope you find this simple enough.
The Android OS  does not recognize the .cer extension, which is the extension used by a Microsoft  certificate server when downloading a root certificate. However, Android does recognize certificate chains, which download from the certificate server with a .p7b extension.  I have had no success installing root certificates from local storage, using built-in or Android Market file management tools. I have copied the .p7b (and cer and pfx) file to local storage and executed it to no avail. But, if I executed the CA cert file from a web server it will load to the local certificate store just fine. Below are the steps I took to install the root certificate onto my Android devices.

Follow these steps:

1.  Download the root certificate chain from the CA (https://CAservername/certsrv)
2.  Place the downloaded root certificate file on a Web server (I used IIS 7)
3.  From your Android device browse to the Web site. (My site had Directory Browsing enabled)
4.  Open the certificate chain file (*.p7b)
5.  Provide a name for the certificate in the local certificate store when prompted
6.  You may also be prompted to set a password to enabled the Android certificate store.

And that's it...well, you may have to force stop and restart any application that you want to recognize the cert, but other than that you should be good to go.

So, now I am now able to access my vWorkspace environment, securely over the Internet, from any of my Android devices ( or Windows, or Mac, or Ipad or Linux)...but I typically have an Android tablet on me when I am out and about and it works great.