 Camelot OnePremium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Greenwood, IN
kudos:1 | UC/SAN SSL Certificate sources, Godaddy vs others? I have a client who wants to allow a handful of remote employees access to the exchange server via Outlook Anywhere. (with the Exchange box also being the AD) I've never actually set this up from scratch, but it seems straight forward enough.
They will need a UCC, I assume for the following:
mail.domain.com
remote.domain.com (the owa external address)
data-server.domain.local (the internal exchange/AD box)
autodiscover.domain.com
data-server.domain.com (not sure if this is required)
A Godaddy 5 name UCC seems the right fit at $90 a year. My question is: Why is it so much cheaper than the same cert from digicert, geotrust, or most of the other SSL sources? The cheapest from Geotrust is $359, Digicert $299. Am I missing something?
They wont' be doing any eCommerce, the certificate would be solely for exchange and owa. I'm looking at Godaddy primarily for price, and because the client is already using them for the domain name itself, but I am open to other suggestions. |
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| Then you may be better off with a self-signed certificate. Just install it on the special clients so they won't get the "untrusted certificate" warning.
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 donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | said by Black Box:Then you may be better off with a self-signed certificate. Just install it on the special clients so they won't get the "untrusted certificate" warning.
This is what I have always done. Not worth the expense. |
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Camelot OnePremium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Greenwood, IN
kudos:1 | I had it up and running that way, but last week something broke. And I decided the time I would spend troubleshooting it just was worth more than $90.
I have them up and running with the Godaddy cert. And it looks like the catch for the lower price is that godaddy isn't a trusted authority on older/non-updated machines. (Windows boxes require the root-certificates windows update, iOS has to be the current version, etc) |
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Anon00Premium
join:2001-09-25
USA
kudos:1 | said by Camelot One:I have them up and running with the Godaddy cert. And it looks like the catch for the lower price is that godaddy isn't a trusted authority on older/non-updated machines. (Windows boxes require the root-certificates windows update, iOS has to be the current version, etc)
Aye, but this should cover anything up-to-date within the past 2-3 years, no?
We'll probably switch over to GoDaddy once it expires in a couple years.
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Camelot OnePremium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Greenwood, IN
kudos:1 | Anything up to date, yes. |
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