Friday, 1 June 2007

FREE SSL Certificates

We are currently looking at our email 'on the go' solution and thought you might like to hear this little bit of FREE-ness. Having had a Blackberry enterprise server for a while now and the contracts up on all our mobiles we are looking at alternative solutions.

Obviously the cheaper option is the Microsoft push email using Windows Mobile 5 AKU2 or greater handsets, so not to be held back with our fiddling ways me and the boss have a new handset for playing...erm....I mean testing this possible solution.

One of the fun joyous things is getting the damn thing working on Exchange 2003 (lets pray things are easier in 2007) which requires an SSL certificate to keep it nice and secure.

Well, the short story is we got it working, I will cover the struggle at some later date when we roll more out and I can document it in more detail but as SSL is useful for more than just email handsets I thought I would point you at startcom.org, these guys are the best with a nice forum full of helpful folks so if you are in need of a cert this is the place to start. Sadly they aren't certified with IE yet but noises on the forums suggest they are working on it.

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