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certificate error with school website
Why is it that according to my computer, there is a certificate error when accessing my school emails? it says that it isn't a safe website and recommends that I don't proceed to log on. It's a perfectly safe thing that i've usued for over three years now, which i've never had problems with and why would the school emails part of the website (not the general website) be the only part that has the message come up anyway?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.But how come it doesn't come up as that when we go on the emails at school, is it something to do with at school, you just click on the inbox icon and there it is, but at home you have to go through the school website and log on. Although once you've logged on at home the bar at the top where the web address is, is red, or is it to do with the server being in the same place IDK i'm not a teckie!
SSL certificates are only valid for a certain period of time, and they're far from cheap. (A three-year certificate, from Verisign, costs £525 + VAT). With cut-backs in education expenditure it's not surprising that your school hasn't renewed their SSL certificate.
Chris
so they use Microsoft exchange then....
It's not your problem to worry about, molly.... if they want somebody to come in and sort out their security certificates and show them how to remove the error without having to buy a certificate then I will do it for a consultant fee, but otherwise just put up with it. (or tell the IT department it's possible and they should work it out themselves)
Exchange can self generate a valid security certificate which should remove the problem..... But it needs to be done every year and it sounds like the school isn't bothering (it's only about 3 lines that needs to be entered into the Exchange management shell (not console)) and as long as some thought was put into the external name of the server and the internal name of it the self generated certificate works fine.
Bottom line is.... it's not your problem, and if they are happy with it like it is then they won't change it.
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