Sysadmin Lab

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 [...]

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 [...]