OWA - Certificate Question
HiWhenever I connect to my Exchange server via external Internet Explorer I always get the certificate error, which I simply click to ignore as it doesn't bother me. However, I want to setup a test email account, as part of a client demo, and so I'd like to be able to certify my own certificate.There was a link on here, a few months ago, which showed how to certificate yourself, rather than paying for a certificate - can anyone remember what it was? The reason I ask is that there are several examples on the Internet, but few of them actually work as they generally go awry at various points.Regards
December 26th, 2008 7:36pm
Hi,This can be done in a few ways:the official way:install a Certificate Authority on one of your other servers and request a certificate for you OWA. Then import the certificate that you requested + the root certificate from your CA serverinstall caOWA and SSLbuy a commercial certificate and install it on your OWA environmentnon official way (not recommend):go to the OWA page and import the self-signed certificate in your trusted root authorities, restart IE and the error will be gone.Regards,Johan blog: www.johanveldhuis.nl
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December 27th, 2008 12:20am
JohanThat link only part works, there's a problem at the point where is says "Getting the pending request accepted by our Certificate Authority". I cannot connect to the URL suggested, http://server/certsvr no matter which convolutions of server/IP I use, I simply get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". I'm using IE7 on my server, if that helps.Regards
January 2nd, 2009 12:28pm