RE: Third-party certificate can't be imported?

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Hi Doug,

Thanks for posting in our newsgroup.

I am glad to know the problem is resolved. You did good job.

At somepoint the CEICW wizards allows you to select a server certificate
and/or gives you the option of importing a trusted certificate. But you are
unable to select the Thawte certificate for some odd reason.

The reason, as it turned out, is that the wizard apparently needs to see
some sign of a pending request in either the default website or in a
surrogate website. So you have to leave it in the pending state to be able
to run the wizard. Or you need to modify the ISA rules manually.

I'd like to give you additional information for your reference:

Windows Small Business Server Technical Library
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServerSolutions/SBS/en/library/4082d695
-2075-4ca0-8af8-99fd04b78b2d1033.mspx?mfr=true

How to install Small Business Server 2003 in an existing Active Directory
domain
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884453/en-us

How to reset the default virtual directories that are required to provide
Outlook Web Access, Exchange ActiveSync, and Outlook Mobile Access services
in Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883380

Creating and Deploying Outlook Web Access Themes
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9bb177d9-2bbe-4c01-bb21-2f6ce9608
9a8.aspx

Hope this helps.

If you have any questions in further, please don't hesitate to post in our
newsgroup.



Best regards,

Robert Li(MSFT)

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<Fortunately, I was able to resolve this matter myself. I changed the ISA
<publishing rules so that the To tab listed my public FQDN which matches
the
<FQDN on the cert. I then had to put a HOSTS entry for the public FQDN
that
<maps to the inside interface.
<
<It would be interesting to see if the CEICW does it this way, but I guess
<I'll never know.
<
<"Doug Lippi" wrote:
<
<> I used the IIS Certificate wizard to create a certificate request to be
sent
<> to Thawte. I did the Thawte part and received the certificate from
them. I
<> then returned to IIS and installed the certificate. I realize now that
this
<> was not the correct way to go for SBS since ISA did not get configured
to use
<> the new certificate. So I try to import it using the CEICW it says:
<>
<> "No certificate has been requested for the default Web site in Internet
<> Information Services (IIS).
<> To use a Web server certificate from a trusted authority, you must first
<> create a request for a certificate by using the Web Server Certificate
Wizard
<> in IIS. You can then run this wizard again to configure the default Web
site
<> to use a trusted authority."
<>
<> So I thought I'd try to edit the ISA firewall rules manually by changing
the
<> listeners to use the Thawte certificate instead of the self-signed one
used
<> previously. This gets the Welcome to SBS 2003 page to work, but not OWA
or
<> RWW (browser returns Error Code 500 Internal Server Error - the Target
<> Principal Name is incorrect). The Paths tab are at /* and /* so I don't
know
<> why OWA and RWW do not work.
<>
<> Stuck.
<

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