Sysadmin Lab

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 [...]

Sometimes you will need to do this to be able to issue certificates and HTTPS is not enabled by default on the website. Start IIS Manager, right-click Default Web Site and select Edit Bindings... Click Add and choose https in the dropdown. In SSL certificate, you need to choose a certificate that you have installed. If you haven't installed a server certificate, you have to install it (I will post article on this later). You should also, when Default Web [...]

I was asked to investigate how to run certificate-based authentication on both Windows Mobile 6.5 and Symbian (Nokia) devices. The most common type of authentication when running ActiveSync is Basic Authentication. This basically means that when the client (in this case your mobile phone) makes a request, it will supply a username and password. For security, SSL encryption is used so your username and password is not sent over the Internet in cleartext. Sure, you could skip the SSL certificate [...]