How to obtain and install a SAN certificate for essential business server?

Asked By Reef Diver
08-Feb-10 06:14 PM
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Hi experts,

I run a Windows Essential Business Server 2008, clean and functional install. My domain www.domain1.de, OWA and Sharepoint can be accessed from the web at remote.domain1.de without any problems. I went through all installation and post-installation-steps without any errors.

I now need to publish a second site www.domain2.de and host the website-files on my management server. The domain is linked to domain2.dyndns.org, I have customized IIS with according host headers and applied a corresponding rule at TMG.

Problem is, when my customers try to reach www.domain2.de, they get the "security certificate problem" and most won't bother to klick "display blocked content".

I understand I do need a SAN certificate stating all domains I host, but I am affraid to break my existing setup (especially OWA) since I am completely new to the certificate issue. 

Can someone please outline in "understandable" words

- how I publish such a SAN certificate (i.e. do I use IIS on the management server, or the certificate MMC, or do I need to publish the SAN certificate from the Exchange console on the messaging server, .....).

- if I need to get a SAN certificate from a 3rd-party authority, and how I can use the above generated information to go about; or if I can use a self-signed certificate instead...

- how I import/publish the certificate in my TMG-server?

Thanks in advance & kind regards,

Mark

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