Re: Ditching inhouse CA for 3rd party cert


"Don Murphy" <DonMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there any issue ditching a selfsigned CA for a third party cert?

You mean you won't run your own CA?


Then you have to deal with cost and cert distribution differently.

If you mean you will have the public CA sign your CA to allow the
certs to be trusted by the outside world then that is a GOOD thing.

I am hoping I can simply do this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295281

The certificate is used to support OWA. I also hope to use Instantssl

Email certs can be automatically issues and renewed using Win2003.

If you have lots of users this could become obnoxious to manage with
externally ISSUED certs.

I have a 3 server environment supporting about 100 workstations.

servers are all 2003 SP1 (2 dc's one member server)
workstations all xp SP2

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Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
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