Re: OWA Digital Certificate

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From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:24:02 -0400

In news:1il95dp69b684$.dlg@exchange-faq.dk,
Henrik Walther [MVP] <spam@exchange-faq.dk> posted their thoughts, then I
offered mine
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:03:23 -0400, Ace Fekay [MVP] wrote:
>
>> In #1 - Default website. If you use your own CA, users at home will
>> get a warning that the cert is not from a recognizable authority. if
>> you can live with that. Otherwise, get a cert from Verisign or one
>> of the other authorities.
>
> But you can eliminate the security warning by adding the certificate
> to the trusted root authorities store on the clients.
>
> If you look for an automatic way of doing this see:
>
> 297681 - Error Message: This Security Certificate Was Issued by a
> Company that You Have Not Chosen to Trust:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=297681

Thanks Henrik! I thought about that afterwards. Didn't know there was an
article for it. :-) 

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