3rd-Party SSL Certs on SBS

Today I experienced the wonder and amazement (sarcasm intended) of installing a 3rd-party SSL certificate onto our Small Business Server 2003 so that users would no longer be annoyed with warning messages when connecting to Outlook Web Access or Remote Web Workplace, and so that it would be significantly easier to configure Outlook-over-HTTPS.

Although the certificate worked like a charm for its intended purpose, I was not-so-pleasantly surprised when I found that I could no longer administrate public folders in Exchange System Manager. I've already spent more than a few hours trying to resolve this with no luck. I've also discovered by a search through Google Groups that I am by no means the only person to experience this pain. Unfortunately, the solution for most people (disable the SSL requirement on the ExAdmin virtual directory in IIS) does not seem to work for me.

I've written a nice support message to the issuing CA in the hopes that they can assist, but methinks that I may need to remove this particular cert and revert to the self-signed certificate that SBS conveniently generates.

Ugh...

-TQG