Kevan
Fri Aug 26 10:46:45 CDT 2005
David
Thanks for your reply.
I read your Blog and applied for a Free SSL from CACert.org. This tested
fine and I will apply for a real certificate when the site goes live.
Best regards.
Kevan
"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
> I'm not certain why you install Certificate Server for any of this...
>
> If this is for customers, then you need to use a real certificate that is
> trusted by the customer's browsers. Your Certificate Server will not be
> trusted by the customer and is useless.
>
> As for testing purposes, SelfSSL is easy to use for that purpose. Give it a
> Website ID and some name/expiration parameters, and bam your website allows
> SSL. Untrusted, of course, but you can quickly turn into production by
> purchasing a real SSL Certificate.
>
> See the following blog entry for an explanation on what is going on and how
> it works:
>
http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/08/02/Free_SSL_on_IIS.aspx
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
>
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> "Kevan" <Kevan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:367D83D6-60C0-4A2C-B41E-BEF2F9EBCA97@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I want to ass SSL authentication to one of our Web Sites. The site is hosted
> on a server in our DMZ but will be made available to our customers.
>
> I have installed Microsoft Certificate services on this server but when I
> try to set up SSL I am only given the Option to prepare the request to send
> to a Certification Authority. The option to apply to an Online
> authentication authority immediately is greyed out.
>
> I have another site on the same server which has a Veri Sign SSL
> certificate. (That would not cause a problem, would it?)
>
> This is a Windows 2000 Server SP4 with IIS5
>
> It is possible that I have not installed the Certification Services properly
> but it did look as if it installed OK.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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