April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
138 pages
3h 55m
English
Replacing the SSL certificate that is used by IP-HTTPS is a regular and necessary task for any DirectAccess server administrator, but one that only comes maybe once per year. This generally means that, by the time your certificate expiration date rolls around, you have probably forgotten where this setting is in the configuration. I hope this recipe can be a quick reference to alleviate that worry.
I always check the certificate from outside the network after making the change to ensure the new certificate is really the one that is now live on the system. If you take a computer outside of your network on the Internet, try browsing to a dummy site from your public DNS record on your DirectAccess server. For example, if the ...