I have several SBS 2003 servers where I use SSL certificates created by CEICW. Due to RPC over HTTPS Outlook setup those certificates are installed into laptop's trusted root certificate store. These certificates are also accepted permanetly on Nokia Smart Phones (Mail for Exchange).
Now I would like to purchace public certificate (eg. due to smartphones) for Outlook usage (companyweb in some organisations too). I wonder do I have to do anything to exisiting laptops or smartphones or will they automaticly continue working. These laptops resides in several countries.
Plese guide me.
Thanks, Juha
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... if you have a cert vendor that is already trusted, there shouldn't be anything else to do for the clients related to the certificate, to answer that part of the question. Otherwise, if you do need to install a root cert, you will only need to do that once per device instead of however many times you did it per device for each self-signed cert before.
Great!
I just purchaced GeoTrust trial certificate to our own mail server to see what happens. I can see it is trusted by my laptop's IE (and Nokia E-series phone) allready. I do update my laptops's certificates via Win Update regurally.
Luckyly I tested this on our own organisation first since I can't send any mails right now and I'm capable to receive mails only through VPN - RPC over HTTPS Outlook, OWA and "Mail fo Exchange" doesn't work. The order (6 hours old) status is: Waiting for Approval email. Tried to Re-send Resend Domaimain approver Email but nothing seems to happen. Perhaps I should check administrator@myemaildomai
Thank you for valuable info!
Rgs,
Juha
I look after 24 SBS boxes and use these guys http://certificatesforexch
There were an approval message which I didn't replied at first time. After doing that I received the certificte and were capable to install it on the server. After that SmartPhones, OWA and RPC over HTTPS Outlook Clients worked fine automaticly. Didn't need to do anything with them.
Thank you all for guiding me with this!
Rgs, Juha
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by: ParanormasticPosted on 2009-10-30 at 12:06:51ID: 25705932
One of many benefits of using a CA is that it is infrastructure based (the "I" in PKI). If you trust the root CA, everything under that root is trusted automatically.
One of the main benefits for using a commercial public CA is that they tend to already be included in the root certificate store for most products - that is what you are paying for is widespread pre-acceptance and the cost related to validating the identity of the individual or company that the cert is representing.
You should check the existing root certificate store on your mobile devices to see what root certificates are already included before purchasing a server certificate. There are some more popular but no vendor is a definite guarantee without checking first. Verisign is the most commonly included across any random certificate using product, however Thawte, GoDaddy, Comodo, GlobalSign are also major players. You may want to look at getting a UC cert (aka SAN or multi-domain) so you can have multiple internal and public names in the same cert.