Wednesday, January 4, 2012

SSL certificates on POSTAL renewed

Today, and after tons of misguided information from GeoTrust, I finally managed to straighten out the renewal of our expiring SSL certificate on Exchange (which was due to expire on the 24th).

Due to GeoTrust's new requirement for a 2048bit RSA encryption on their certs, I had to request a brand new certificate, in order to upgrade our current 1024bit RSA encryption cert. (A CSR for a cert renewal usually maintains the same encryption level as the original certificate). This made the process a bit different.

In any case, the certificate is now valid until 03/06/2015, and is applied to:

  • Default website on IIS 6 on POSTAL
  • Default SMTP Virtual Server (in Exchange System Manager Protocols)
  • Secure Relay Virtual Server (in Exchange System Manager Protocols)
  • Default IMAP Virtual Server (In Exchange System Manager Protocols) 
Nothing should change in user experience, this merely helps in not having Exchange downtime when the old certificate expires. 

  • The new certificate was installed on 01/04/2012 at 2:30pm

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