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Digital Certificates for Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004, for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition, or for Windows Essential Business Server 2008


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This article lists common scenarios that have solutions that are described in the Digital Certificates for ISA Server 2004 document or for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition or Windows Essential Business Server 2008. For information about how to download this document, visit the following Microsoft Digital Certificates for ISA Server 2004 Web site:

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Digital certificates are the industry standard means of authentication and of providing encryption of sensitive data. A typical example of digital certificate use is in communication between a computer on the Internet and a Web server, in which credit card or bank account and password information may be transmitted. To prevent the reading of this information as it passes through the routers that connect the Internet, the HTTPS protocol is used. The HTTPS protocol requires digital certificates.

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition, or Windows Essential Business Server 2008 make it possible to use digital certificates for Web publishing rules, server publishing rules, and site-to-site virtual private network (VPN) connections. This document describes scenarios in which digital certificates, also called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, are required on an ISA Server-based computer or on published servers that are behind the ISA Server-based computer, behind Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition, or behind Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Procedures for obtaining and installing digital certificates are provided.

Digital certificates are used in a variety of scenarios. By using ISA Server 2004, Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition, or Windows Essential Business Server 2008, there are two common publishing scenarios which may require digital certificate installation:
  • You are publishing an HTTPS server by using server publishing rules.
  • You are publishing a Web server or Microsoft Outlook Web Access server.
To view detailed solutions for each of these two scenarios, download the Digital Certificates for ISA Server 2004 document. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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Article Info
Article ID : 888716
Revision : 9
Created on : 12/4/2007
Published on : 12/4/2007
Exists online : False
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