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Tas
11/16/2006 3:01:39 PM
I just purchased and setup an SSL certificate for an MS OWA server.
The certificate works great for me from multiple computers I have
tested it on. I can go to the secure page with no errors or pop-ups at
all.

But, a client who is trying to access OWA gets this error: Security
Alert: The Name of the Security Certificate Is Invalid or Does Not
Match the Name of the Site

Here's the strange part. When he views the certificate, it's not the
certificate I installed at all!! It's for a different domain
completely, one I've never heard of before: www.lbow.com
Of course the name doesn't match, it's not the correct certificate!


It seems his IE is trying to use some other certificate it has
somewhere. Does anyone know why/how this could happen?? Any way to
"clear" the certificate information in IE? I've tried clearing the
cookies and files, but didn't help.
Bernard Cheah [MVP]
11/17/2006 12:00:00 AM
Mmm.. funny. Is the client really browsing your site?
have you test it locally and it is working at local site at least?


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Bernard Cheah
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Tas
11/17/2006 6:09:45 AM
Thanks for your reply, Bernard, but we got it figured out. The client
was typing in the URL incorrectly. He was putting in
"https://www.domain.com/exchange" instead of
"https://mail.domain.com/exchange". I'm still unsure why that other
certificate was coming up on our domain, but it doesn't matter now.

Thanks!!


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Bernard Cheah [MVP]
11/19/2006 12:00:00 AM
Yeah. so it was visiting the wrong url :)

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.iis.net/
http://www.iis-resources.com/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/


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