Affordable SAN(UCC) certificates for Exchange Server
We are currently in the process of setting up our new Exchange 2010 environment and I was looking for a certificate supplier that doesn’t require you to pay an arm and an leg for a certificate.
When you set up your Exchange server to use auto discovery and other services you probably won’t run everything on autodiscovery.domain.com. So you need a certificate with Subject Alternative Names or SAN. Also called Unified Communications Certificates or UCC.
You could buy them from Verisign or Thawte or any of the ones Microsoft currently supports, which is three suppliers you can find them here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929395
Anyway, I wanted a simple certificate to encrypt the traffic between the server and the client and to be able to use auto discovery without any error messages for the users about untrusted certificates. Using AD-CS will remove the problem from the normal Active Directory computers but not mobile devices not belonging to the domain. So googling around I found this supplier and decided to post it here for future reference and so you can save a few bucks on the certificates. The supplier is http://certificatesforexchange.com/
Checking their prices today a multiple domain certificate costs 59,99$/year. And believe me that’s cheap.
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