2010 with Wildcard certs

[mosschopster]

Hi All,
Seems to be conflicting advice on the net about whether or not wildcard certs are good with Ex2010. We already have a wildcard cert so we are giving it a go, however I get the 'The certificate is invalid for Exchange Server usage'. The root and intermediate certs are installed and can be validated by clicking the cert and checking the chain - all certs show as good. Get-exchangeservercertificates shows the wildcard cert listed. I tried adding a service to the cert via Exchange management shell and that works fine so why does the Exchange management console show the cert as invalid?

Cheers guys

 

[mosschopster]

I've sorted this folks. Had to enable all purposes on the root cert which then resulted in a different error regarding the CRL which I had to download and install on the Exchange server even though I had Internet access and the CRL location could be reached.

 

[58sniper]

Glad to see you got it going. Thanks for sharing the solution so that others can use what you've learned in resolving similar issues.

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