SSL Certificate Installation Instructions

Microsoft Exchange Server

Firstly when your issuance email arrives it will contain your web server certificate. Copy your web server certificate into a text editor such as notepad including the header and footer. You should then have a text file that looks like:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
[encoded data]
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Make sure you have 5 dashes to either side of the BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE and that no white space, extra line breaks or additional characters have been inadvertently added.

    1. Copy your web server certificate into a text editor such as notepad and save as yourdomain.cer.
    2. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager.
    3. If the Display administrative groups option is turned on, expand Administrative Groups, and then expand First Administrative Group (where First Administrative Group is the name of your administrative group).
      Note To display administrative groups, right-click Your_Organization, click Properties, click to select the Display administrative groups check box, click OK two times, and then restart Exchange System Manager.

    4. Expand Servers, expand the Exchange Server container that you want to configure, and then expand the Protocols container.

    5. Expand each protocol that you want to configure, right-click the Default Protocol_Name virtual server object, and then click Properties.

    6. Click the Access tab, and then click Certificate.

    7. After Web Server Certificate Wizard restarts and you receive notification that you have a pending certificate request, click Next.

    8. On the Pending Certificate Request page, click Process the pending request and install the certificate, and then click Next.

    9. In the Process a Pending Request box, enter the path of the previously saved yourdomain.cer.
    10. Review the Certificate Summary page, and then click Next.
      The information that is contained in the certificate includes who issued the certificate, when the certificate expires, what the certificate is to be used for. The certificate friendly name that appears on the Certificate Summary page is also included.

    11. After you receive notification that the certificate is successfully installed on the virtual server, click Finish.