Tec(h)tonic

Insights into building a solid I.T. foundation in the mid-size business world.

Tag: SSL

  • Free, trusted SSL certificates

    SSL certificates, in case you don’t already know, are the mechanism by which one can secure the connection between a user and a web site – they are the “keys” to establishing a secure connection between the endpoints so that transmitted data can’t be intercepted. As someone who’s frequently spinning up Linux VMs to use…

  • Installing an SSL certificate in Windows Server 2008 (IIS 7.0)

    I recently used this process to apply a renewed certificate to our MS Exchange Server. Don’t bother w/ the “renew” process within Exchange Mgmt. Console, as all certificate management is actually done in IIS (EMC just reflects what it finds in IIS). Delete the existing, expired certificate and then use these steps to install the updated…