UC Certificate Partners for Exchange and OCS 2007

jkruse — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:32:04 GMT

Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 have strict requirements for external/public certificates - specifically the use of Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificates, aka Unified Communications Certificates.

We have a KB article (kb929395) which lists some of the providers of these UC certs.

INTRODUCTION

Microsoft works with public X.509 certification authorities (CAs) to make sure that Microsoft Exchange Server customers can obtain the certificates that they require in order to use Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for the Domain Security feature to enable secure client access from the Internet.
Microsoft also works with CAs in order to make sure that Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 customers can obtain certificates that they require for Communications Server 2007 servers.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929395

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Exchange 2007 certificates

jkruse — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:31:00 GMT

While I was having lunch with one of our Exchange Engineers today I asked "what is the most common support call that comes in for Exchange 2007?".

The answer was certificates - customers can be confused about what type of certificate to get, what hostnames are used (most customers use different namespace internally than they do externally), what requirements TLS has, and of course they are completely unaware of things like Subject Alternative Name.

Fortunately there is a great post at You Had Me At EHLO that explains more about this issue and how it can affect your Exchange deployment.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/07/02/445698.aspx

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UC Certificate Partners for Exchange and OCS 2007

INTRODUCTION

Exchange 2007 certificates