Re: Quick Question...

From: Steve Turley (sturley@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/22/02


From: "Steve Turley" <sturley@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:57:55 -0700


You need to install a server certificate on your server. You can get one
from any cert authority (VeriSign, Thawte, etc), but this will probably cost
money. You can set up your server as a certificate authority (CA) and issue
yourself a cert. You company may already have a cert you can use, or may
have set up an internal CA that will issue a cert to you.
Once you install the server cert on your server the buttons will be active.
Hope this helps.

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"Greg Dalton" <Gregory_Dalton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:17bfe01c22e6b$35faea50$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
> Hi,
>
> Im trying to have a play with IIS and am hoping ultimately
> to get a service accessed over HTTPS, so Im just playing
> with SSL, certificates and things like this.
>
> However I have a bit of a problem. A lot of the articles
> and tutorials tell me to bring up the properties of an ASP
> page from IIS, and selecting the Directory Secutiry Tab.
> The articles then go on to tell me to click the Server
> Certificate button, however all the secure communications
> buttons are dimmed out, and I cannot select them.
>
> Does anyone know why this is, and what I can do to get at
> the buttons. Also - if anybody knows of any articles they
> have found particularly informative on Web Services and
> security (preferably in C#), then a URL to them would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Greg


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