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Emer_144299
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Feb 15, 2014

F5 Load balancing for SharePoint 2013 with end to end encryption

Hi there,   I'm a SharePoint person not an F5/network person so apologies in advance if I don't use the correct terminology :-)   I need help understanding what is needed to configure F5 with S...
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JG
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Feb 15, 2014

  1. Yes. There are two separate SSL connections, one from the Exchange user to F5, and the other from F5 to the backend server. Hence the two profiles.

     

  2. Either of the specific or the wildcard certificate will work for the client profile. You can use the default serverssl as the server profile.

     

F5 needs to prove to the user that it is the right server with a valid certificate, and the Exchange backend server in turn needs to prove to F5 that it is the right server with its certificate as well. That's how it works.