Re: SSL Certificate used for two redundant web servers...

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 03/31/04


Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:26:00 +0800

Yes, it's must be local computer account \ personal store foldere.

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Bernard Cheah
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"Mike" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CF4AD51B-6079-4C7A-9BAC-F61BC764A870@microsoft.com...
> The problem is resolved... thanks for the help. Here is what I did to
solve the problem!
>
> I found that I was making a mistake and missing one step listed in every
knowledge base article.
>
> When adding the MMC snap-in (Certificates) to your MMC it will ask you to
chose from one of the following:
> -Current User
> -Service Account
> -Computer Account
>
> When working with IIS and trying to enable SSL you must be managing the
computer account.
> The computer account is where a certificate goes to certify that the
computer is really who it says it is.
> The user and service certificates respectivly verifies the users and the
services on that server.
>
> When a user tries to connect to your server in SSL they just need to know
that your server really is yours and not some elses.
>
> As soon as I imported the certificate into the "Computer Account
Certificates", under the personal certifcates folder, IIS was able to see it
as a selectable certificate under the assign exisiting certificate section
of the certificates wizard.


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