In my lab I only use certificates issued from my own CA so I don’t have to buy a certificate. But it would be nice to be able to test real public CA:s without the need to buy a certificate (see this post for a price comparison). All of them, except Entrust, offers free trials. I decided to try them out in my lab environment where i have Exchange 2007/2010 and secured using TMG/ISA. Of an by the way, don’t [...]
Archive for April, 2010
If you’re getting certificates for your Exchange 2007/2010 lab, you should use use the New-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet for 2007 or 2010. In 2010 there’s a Exchange Certificate Wizard that will make your life much easier. And if that’s not enough, Digicert has created a great webtool for it. But if you, like me, really wanted to figure our what’s going on in the background, you can use the certreq.exe utility supplied since Windows 2000. It’s not as easy and to be [...]
Categories: Certificate and CA, Exchange
To make my lab look very much like a production environment, I decided to buy a SSL certificate for my Exchange/ISA/TMG lab from a public CA. Which one should I choose? I didn’t care much about which one that was most secure, I only wanted it to work and as cheap as possible of 3 years. There are many suppliers out there and prices ranging from $27 to $3000+, but for me, I wanted to cheapest possible – otherwise I [...]
Categories: Certificate and CA