IE7 and OWA + SSL = no go..

[snootalope]

Hello

When trying to access our OWA via

https://mail.ourdomain.com/exchange

- i get "Cannot display the webpage" "most likely causes....yada yada"

I've been through 15 pages of googling "OWA and SSL" and "IE7 and SSL", tried changing almost every setting possible in IE settings, changed the registry entries following an MS KB article to direct an AppData key to it's correct place, applied 911829 and 924334 to our Exchange 2003 server. Among otheres.. I've formated and reinstalled now to start from scratch. (format/reinstall didn't help)

This is happening on three machines that all have IE7 installed - one of which is running on Vista. However, from dozens of other machines on our same local LAN that have IE7 accessing OWA via ssl works just fine.

From the machiens that do NOT work, I use http rather than https and it works. Gotta be something with ssl, but I can't figure it out. (i even exported the ssl cert from our exchange server and imported to the client machines, didn't help)

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks a million if you do!

 

[snootalope]

Just thought I'd post back incase anyone else runs into this. A few months ago I replaced our inhouse CA machine with a new one, same name and everything just a new machine.

I went onto our mail server and renewed it's certificate to the CA, even though it showed it was fine.. after doing that, the IE7 machine accessed our OWA just fine.

 

[spi200]

Hi

They have raise the BAR on SSL in IE7 - try this to return your IE7 to the same settings used in IE5 and IE6.
Go to tools - Internet Options - Advanced settings - Scroll down to Security section and enable SSL 2.0 - Save and exit and restart your browser and try again to see if it works.
I had a few older web sites that used SSL 2.0 and as soon as I upgraded to IE 7 I started having issues, on some machines the page would load after about a minute and other would just error out - I think he differences came down to a timout thing or some web pages would negotiate SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0 after a wait.
Anyway I sovled it after a couple of days tearing my hair out, so I hope it works for you - it does sound similar.
Let us know how you get on, as it might help some others.

Regards

Dave