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So, today I did my first implementation of ActiveSync for an iPhone and I'm pleased to say it worked great when using a GoDaddy certificate. For those of you that are not aware, GoDaddy sells 1-year domain validated certificates for about $30US while competitors often charge $150US or more. The only catch is that occasionally, some (typically older) applications or operating systems do not properly trust the GoDaddy certificates. However, I'm seeing this less and less. All of our recent (last year or two) Windows Mobile devices have been fine with GoDaddy certificates as well.

CIRA is responsible for managing the .ca domain. To comply with Canadian privacy laws they now offer the option to keep the adminstrative and technical contacts for a domain registration private. This is intended to be used by individuals rather than business domains. Business can also select the option to keep their information private but should not. For two reasons: Domain-based certificate verification cannot be performed. When obtaining certificates for Web servers and such, the cheapest certificates used for SSL are those performed by domain verification. These certificates are approved by sending an e-mail to the administrative contact for a domain. When privacy is selected at CIRA, these providers cannot view the Administrative contact and consequently cannot send the verification request. Other contact is also not possible. There may be legitimate reasons why someone would want to contacts you, such as notifying you of misconfiguration in your DNS domain. This is also not easi

Hopefully this post prevents someone from the pain I went through with Exchange 2007 SP1 running on Windows Server 2008. The short version is this: Exchange 2007 SP1 running on Windows Server 2008 requires IPv6 to run properly . We have a server that we support with Exchange 2007 running on Windows Server 2008. We took over support of this server from another company. Consequently there are always surprises. We try to do most of our service remotely and we had not rebooted the server in the 3 months we had been managing it. After performing some maintenance on it, we did a reboot and all hell broke loose. Symptoms were: Terminal services no longer functional Exchange services not starting, specifically the Hub Transport service Limited functionality in most MMC snap-ins (Server Manager would open but not show information, services would open and show status but not allow you to change startup configuration of a service) Basically, the server was hooped. Eventually we edited the registr

When you buy Windows Server 2008 as retail, OEM, or volume licensing you automatically have downgrade rights to use a previous version of Windows server such as Windows Server 2003. This is required because a number of applications are still not certified to run on Windows Server 2008. If you have purchased Windows Server 2008 via volume licensing then the process for downgrading is simple. Contact Microsoft, and they will provide you with a download of the media and a license key to use. If you have purchased Windows Server 2008 as retail product or OEM then the process is more complex as Microsoft will not provide you with the media or a license key. MS basically indicated that you have the right to downgrade but they do not provide the means. You can perform the downgrade by: Obtaining an OEM key and media from any source. The source could be another server you own or another company or your OEM vendor. You do not need to own the OEM key and media used. Obtaining a retail key and me