Exchange 2013: Create certificate request for public CA

Certificates from an Active Directory integrated certification authority can be easily requested via MMC. However, if you want to buy a certificate, you need a certificate request that can be submitted to the CA. Unfortunately, ECP offers few options for configuring the request and the subsequent certificate. The way via the Exchange Shell works much better. The command is ... Read more

Migration root certification authority SHA1 to SHA256 (hash algorithm)

From 01.01.2016, Microsoft will declare SSL certificates with SHA1 as the hash algorithm invalid. Web servers or services that use certificates with SHA1 will therefore trigger certificate warnings in the user's browser. Therefore, SHA1 certificates should be replaced slowly but surely. In order for an internal CA to issue certificates with SHA256 (SHA2), the CA must ... Read more