Troubleshooting: Exchange – Unable to open OWA, ECP, or EMS after a self-signed certificate is removed from the Exchange Back End Website

Add to Favorites Troubleshooting: Consider the following scenario when you are using Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 You remove the Microsoft Exchange Self-Signed certificate from the Exchange Back End Website by using Certificates MMC, Remove-Exchangecertificate, IIS Manager, or another method. You clear the IIS cache by restarting or IISReset. You are […]

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How To Enable Or Import A Root Certifciate In Windows Systems Using MMC.

Add to Favorites Depending on the circumstance you may be getting mixed results of browser certificate trust or for whatever reason are experiencing an issue with Cross Root Certificates or warning of not fully trusting a chaining root. Cross Root Certificate where used back in the day by some Certificate Authorities to help certificate trust to […]

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Troubleshooting: Host headers in Microsoft Server 2008 IIS 7.0 & 7.5

Add to Favorites Depending on your environment you may have the following Issues: Website A is coming up as website B. Unable to assign a certificate due to another website using the same IP or Port. Host Name when binding the certificate is grayed out. Using Host Headers requires that the following conditions are met: […]

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How to move certificate from Windows to Citrix Netscaler.

Add to Favorites Windows servers use .pfx/.p12 files to contain the public key file (SSL Certificate) and its unique private key file. The Certificate Authority (CA) provides you with your SSL Certificate (public key file). You use your server to generate the associated private key file where the CSR was created. You need both the […]

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How to move a certificate from Exchange to Apache

Add to Favorites Depending on your network you may have to move your SSL/TLS server certificate and its private key from one system to another. This article covers how to move your server certificate, and its private key from Exchange that uses a single pfx/p12/pkcs#12 file to Apache that uses separate .pem,.crt, key files. This will require a […]

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How to move certificate from Exchange to Tomcat

Add to Favorites Windows servers use .pfx/.p12 (pkcs#12) files to contain the public key file (SSL Certificate) and its unique private key file. The Certificate Authority (CA) provides you with your SSL Certificate (public key file). You use your server to generate the associated private key file where the CSR was created. You need both […]

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Troubleshooting: “Cannot find the certificate request that is associated with this certificate file.”

Add to Favorites In Windows IIS, and Exchange systems you may receive the following error message when attempting the installation of a digital certificate. “The pending certificate request for this response file was not found. This request may be canceled. You cannot install selected response certificate using this Wizard.” Or “Cannot Find the certificate request that […]

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How to move SSL Certificate from Exchange to Mac OS X

Add to Favorites Windows servers use PKCS#12 – .pfx/.p12 files to contain the public key file (SSL Certificate) and its unique private key file. The Certificate Authority (CA) provides you with your SSL Certificate (public key file). You use your server to generate the associated private key file where the CSR was created. You need […]

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Troubleshooting: Assigning a friendly name to an SSL Certificate in Windows

Add to Favorites Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is the management console that is used to configure, manipulate, create, and fix services on a windows system in the back end that you probably wont be able to do with any front end application. It is used heavily to troubleshoot matters related to SSL certificates on Windows systems. If you […]

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