RE: Requesting Digital Certificate

From: Cas Irvin [MS] (cirvinonline@microsoft.com)
Date: 07/30/02


From: cirvinonline@microsoft.com (Cas Irvin [MS])
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:29:27 GMT


Hello Imran,

If I understand your question correctly, what you are asking is if you can
request a certificate from machine A using Machine B's FQDN. In other
words, we have a server that is in test but will go live and you want to
request a certificate that can be used live.

You shoul have no problems with this at all so long as the Common Name
specified during the certificate request will be the same name that the
server responds to when it goes live. What you will see is that so long as
the server is being tested and accessed by anything other than it's FQDN,
you will receive a message stating that the names do not match. This can be
disregarded and will not be seen when the server is accessed by it's FQDN.

Cas Irvin
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