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Browse All TopicsHello all. We are experiencing a problem where our internal Outlook 2007
clients are reporting a certificate error on startup/connection to our
Exchange 2007 server. Here is a brief overview of our setup:
Domain: Windows Server 2003 AD domain with 2 DCs running Windows Server 2008 (64)
Exchange setup: 1 member server running Server 2008 (64) w/ 1 HUB Server and
1 Mailbox Server - 1 member server running Server 2008 (64) w/ 1 CAS server. (All Exchange 2007 SP1).
On the CAS server, we've implemented 2 certificates. One is a 3rd party SAN cert containing all necessary
names for external access (which is working fine). We've also enabled the default simple cert that ships with Ex2K7 strictly for internal clients. We've done this because our external domain name is different than our internal domain name. This saved us quite a bit of money on the 3rd party cert what with not having to add the internal names to it. I read several posts at the Exchange Teams blog that gave me the impression that this would work fine as that cert would be trusted on the internal domain.
Now for the issue at hand - when an internal client w/ Outlook 2K7 opens
Outlook, they receive a cert error (twice) stating that the name on the cert doesn't
match the name of the site. When you view the cert, it is showing the external site name, not the internal localhost name of the CAS server. I've checked
both certs on the CAS server: both are correct and valid and the internal cert
does list both the internal NETBIOS and FQDN names of the CAS server. I've also checked
the SCP and it too is listing the correct internal names for the CAS server.
I've run "test-outlookwebservices -identity <my username>" and it only returns one error:
Id : 1005
Type : Error
Message : When accessing https://<localhostname>/Au
Autodiscover.xml the error "RemoteCertificateNameMism
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Adam
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Run through and check all the URL's and change any that don't look correct to you.
http://exchangeshell.wordp
Also, I don't think using 2 certificates is a supported setup for the services provided by the CAS server, such as Autodiscover. You can only have 1 certificate attached to IIS (by using Enable-ExchangeCertificate
Shaun
Right.. you definately want a UC\SAN cert.. $60 a yea from https://DomainsForExchange
Thanks for all the speedy replies all. Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. Been trying to digest the wealth of info provided.
Just to provide some additional quick info:
My memory was failing me a bit on my initial post regarding our certificates. It wasn't down to saving money on the cert that we didn't have the netbios and internal fqdn of our CAS server added to the external SAN cert; it was because the cert provider, Digicert (and, for that matter, serveral other providers that we looked at), refused to add them (well, the FQDN anyway) to the cert because our internal domain name looks very similar to our external domain name. In fact, they are only different by one character! Don't ask me why, I know it's daft but this was all done before my time. Basically, every cert provider we looked at said pretty much the same thing: our internal domain name looks too much like a public domain name and that we either needed to register our internal domain name or change it to a .local name, neither of which we (well, my boss anyway) are willing to do. So we really had no choice but to go with having two certs; the Digicert SAN certificate for external access, and the default Ex2K7 single name cert for internal access.
shauncroucher - to answer your question, we've only got the IIS service enabled on the SAN cert (our Digicert external certificate).
If we added an SRV record to our internal DNS server that resolved our external name (mail1.ourexternaldomainna
In my experience you need to have both external and internal URL's on one certificate, and this certificate should then be used for IIS.
You may be able to fiddle with the URL's and SCP. If you set the internal DNS to use Split DNS (where you have a zone set up for your external domain URL's to resolve to internal IP's) and set all Internal URL's to the external URL in the certificate it may work but I just don't know, it is pretty far off normal design.
Shaun
After more trolling, it doesn't appear that you can disable the autodiscover service for internal clients (at least, not that I've found). Doesn't sound like a good idea anyway. Not sure the split dns option will work either but thanks for the suggestion shaun. Seems we're in quite the pickle. If you have any other idea's please do let me know. Will keep checking back.
Shauncroucher:
Going to go ahead and mark your last entry as the accepted solution. This looks very much like what we are going to be doing. Made the decision last night to contact Nominet today and discuss prices/fees. Once we can get a valid "whois" for our internal domain, we'll be able to have Digicert verify it and add the FQDN to our external cert. Seems like the only way to rectify this. Thanks all.
Adam
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by: demazterPosted on 2009-10-28 at 08:17:33ID: 25684182
Your receiving it because the autodiscover service has not been configured correctly.
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Mestha has a post here explaining what needs to be done: http://www.amset.info/exch