Outlook Anywhere on Vista using a SBS self signed Certificate

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:32:14 GMT

Configuring Outlook Anywhere on Vista turned out to be slightly trickier than on Windows XP. I am using Outlook 2003 on top of Windows Vista Business Edition for the sake of this post.

First off, I tried to import the certificate using OWA. Connecting to the HTTPS URL gave me the usual certificate warning, however importing the certificate into Trusted Root Certification Authorities Certificate repository, didn't fix the error. I ignored this at my peril, and tried to configure Outlook 2003 as usual, but Outlook anywhere refused to connect.

This Post on the Technet blog, should have worked, but it didn't.

I opened up a Certificate MMC and noticed that the current user did indeed have the correct certificate installed under the USER Trusted Root Certification Authorities, but not the MACHINE'S Trusted Root Certification Authorities.

Once I imported the cert into the Certificate store used by my local computer, everything started working transparently. OWA stopped bleating about having a untrusted Cert, and Outlook Anywhere 2003 started working immediately.

The short and sweet of it is, that if importing the SBS self signed cert into the local user's Trusted Root Certification Authorities store doesn't work, try importing it into the Local Computer Certificate store, instead of just the Local Users store.

My phone is dead, long live my phone

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:57:47 GMT

After the advent of Exchange SP2, I regarded my mates running Windows Mobile 5 with much distain and jealousy. Until the day arrived when I installed RoadSync from Dataviz http://www.dataviz.com.

What an awesome product - I LOVED it. Finally my mail followed me around on my Imate Jam, even over GPRS. the nicest thing is it JUST worked, no messing about, no fuss, life was grand.

Until of course my phone died, and I was given a Nokia 9300i on loan. I thought - this may be a GREAT idea to test this phone impartially and see how I get on, bearing in mind that I used to be a Nokia die hard until I started using Windows Mobile phones. The nice folks at Dataviz helped out again, and I was mobile again.

I can't wait for my new Windows Mobile phone. Nokia can learn some serious lessons about rich phone platforms. YES I had a reset button and I used it often, but the phone did allow me to be massively productive in ways that I cannot achieve easily with the Nokia platform. Writing apps in Java - who you kidding?

Windows Mobile dude - once you've had it, you want it again and again.........

As soon as I can get myself another Windows Mobile phone I'll be waving goodbye to my Nokia.

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Outlook Anywhere on Vista using a SBS self signed Certificate

My phone is dead, long live my phone