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krelm_52303
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Nov 27, 2009

OWA 2007 Forms Based Auth with SSL to server

I need to offload the SSL on an LTM for an OWA deployment, but then re-encrypt before sending to the server (I know, not much point in doing this, but this is a legacy requirement.) It means I need to create an external (Verisign) SSL cert on the Client side connection on the LTM, and also a self-signed cert on the LTM. I'm going to use SSL session persistence, so should be ok on that side.

 

 

My question is, where do I need to install the self-signed cert on the Exchange servers? Anything else I should be wary of from LTM side?

 

 

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  • James_Quinby_46's avatar
    James_Quinby_46
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    Dec 16, 2009
    I'm not an Exchange expert by any means, but if I'm not mistaken, SSL certs are installed via the Exchange admin UI, ie:

     

     

    http://help.godaddy.com/article/4877

     

     

    Your configuration should work fine. Some folks choose to use a shorter key length for the self-signed cert to conserve CPU cyles on the back-end resources.