Applies to: Exchange Server 2007 SP3, Exchange Server
2007 SP2, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Exchange Server 2007
Topic Last Modified: 2007-03-22
This topic provides information about how to use multiple Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates for Outlook Anywhere and the Microsoft Exchange services that Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 uses, such as Unified Messaging and the offline address book (OAB). The following sections give an overview of the process for configuring your Outlook Anywhere deployment to use multiple SSL certificates.
Configuring Your Outlook Anywhere Deployment to Use Multiple SSL Certificates
To configure your Outlook Anywhere deployment to use multiple SSL certificates, you must do the following:
- Obtain two valid SSL certificates You
must obtain two valid SSL certificates from a certification
authority (CA) that is trusted by the client's operating system.
One SSL certificate will be used for the site that will handle
e-mail and the other will be used for the site dedicated to the
Autodiscover service. For example, create one SSL certificate named
mail.contoso.com and another certificate named
autodiscover.contoso.com. For more information about how to obtain
a valid SSL certificate, see How to Obtain a Server
Certificate from a Certification Authority.
- Configure a second IP address After you
have acquired the certificates, you must assign an additional IP
address to the network adapter, also known as a NIC, of the server
that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that
has the Client Access server role installed. This will enable
the Client Access server to have two public IP addresses.
- Create an A record Create an A record
for the second site that is dedicated to the Autodiscover service
(for example, autodiscover.contoso.com ) and point it to the new IP
address that you created on the Client Access server.
- Create a new Autodiscover Web site On
the Client Access server, use the Internet Information Services
(IIS) Administrator program to create a new Web site that points to
an empty directory. Then assign this new Web site the IP address
for the second site that is dedicated to the Autodiscover service
(for example, autodiscover.contoso.com). Use the
New-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory cmdlet to create the new
Autodiscover virtual directory on this second Web site that is
dedicated to the Autodiscover service. For more information about
how to create a new Autodiscover service virtual directory, see
How to Create a
New Autodiscover Service Virtual Directory.
- Remove the Autodiscover virtual directory for the default
Web site You must correctly identify and
remove the Autodiscover service virtual directory that you created
during Exchange Setup by using the
Remove-AutoDiscoverVirtualDirectory cmdlet. For more
information about how to remove the default Autodiscover service
virtual directory, see How to Delete the
Default Autodiscover Service Virtual Directory.
- Assign the SSL certificates to the correct Web
sites You must assign the first SSL
certificate (example, the certificate for mail.contoso.com) to the
default Web site, and then assign the second SSL certificate to the
site that is dedicated to the Autodiscover service (for example,
the autodiscover.contoso.com Web site).
- Change the URLs for the Exchange
services You must change the external and
internal URLs for your available Exchange services to point to
the site that is dedicated to handling e-mail, for example,
mail.contoso.com. For more information about how to set the URLs
for the Exchange services, see How to Configure
Exchange Services for the Autodiscover Service.
- Configure the SCP object You must
configure the service connection point (SCP) object to use the site
that is dedicated to the Autodiscover service, for example,
autodiscover.contoso.com
- Test your results After you have
completed all these steps, you must make sure that the sites that
are dedicated to handling e-mail and the Autodiscover service can
be resolved internally and externally by your
Outlook client.
How Outlook Uses Multiple SSL Certificates
After your Outlook Anywhere deployment has been configured correctly to use multiple SSL certificates, your domain-joined clients will contact Active Directory and obtain the site address for the Autodiscover service from the SCP object. Clients that are either not domain joined or that do not have direct access to Active Directory will contact the DNS server to obtain the site address for the Autodiscover service SCP object. After a client connects to the Autodiscover service, the client will receive the URLs for the available Microsoft Exchange services. At no point will the client be prompted with a certificate warning because a valid certificate is provided at each point during the connection process.
For More Information
For more information about the Autodiscover service and Outlook Anywhere, see the following topics: