RE: Web/Domain/RWW

From: Steve (Steve_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:09:08 -0800

Thanks Carles - i will trawl my way through the info you provided and get
back if required

""Charles Yang [MSFT]"" wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Glad to hear from you.
>
> According to your description, I understand you want to get some
> suggestions on SBS 2003 web certificate and sharepoint website publishing.
> If I am off base, please let me know.
>
> For the web certificate questions, when you run the CEICW, you will be
> prompted to input the registered internet FQDN which is the domain name
> that you registered in the external name service provider,
> www.mydomain.com. The name is assign by an external ISP for your SBS
> server, not for the other websites you host on ISP. If you do not have a
> FQDN, you should use the public IP address of the SBS network. After
> inputting the internet FQDN, a self-assigned certificate will be created
> for the SSL (Security Socket Layer) communication.
>
> 1. The authority that issues this certificate should be trusted.
> Since it is a self-assigned certificate and not a trusted Root CA in
> Internet Explorer by default, your client should install it manually. To
> install it, you just need to click View Certificate and then click install
> certificate, when opening the website hosted on the SBS.
>
> 2. The security certificate date should be valid. You can view the
> date by clicking View Certificate date.
>
> 3. The name of the certificate should be the same as the FQDN you
> input to access the website. That means if you register your internet
> domain name as www.mydomain.com, you should input this name in the CEICW
> and your client should use www.mydomain.com to access your server on the
> internet with https communication. If he uses the IP address, the
> certificate mismatch information will be displayed, although you can still
> proceed by ignoring this information. So please use the IP address to
> access the websites, if you can not get a resolved FQDN name from your ISP.
>
> More information about running CEICW to configure the internet access on
> SBS, please refer to the following KB:
>
> How to configure Internet access in Windows Small Business Server 2003
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;825763
>
> As you described, you want to publish a sharepoint website and put shared
> information on the websites. As I know, you can create the website using
> any tools and put the shared the information on the website and then
> publish the website using Internet Information System (IIS) in "Server
> Management" on SBS. For detailed steps about publishing the sharepoint
> website I suggest you follow the document below to publish a new sharepoint
> website:
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/6/176c5f1e-a0a1-4d10-81f6-4228332
> 7617e/PublishWSS.doc#_Toc55277558
>
> Here is more information about the SBS network security and how to host a
> business website on SBS 2003, it might also be helpful to your company:
>
> Secure SBS network
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/maintain/sbsecnet.mspx
>
> Hosting a website on SBS 2003:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/deploy/bcardsbs.mspx
>
> I hope the above information helps. If you have any other concerns or
> issue, please feel free to let me know. I am standing by to be of
> assistance.
>
> Best regards,
>
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>
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>
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