Certificate Services is only needed if you're going to be creating your own certificates. If you're purchasing them from someone like Verisign, you won't need it.
Note that self-generated certificates will usually pop up a "questionable certificate" dialog in a web browser -- at least until the user sets their options to trust your certificate.
Chip H.
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Hi Chip, thanks for answering my question. I am not planning to be creating my own certificates. I will be purchasing one from Verisign and then installing it on the IIS Server. Therefore, I won't need to install Certificate Services right?
so this can be bound to the certificate using a secret key), and then right-click and hit properties. You then go to Directory Security and click Server Certificate...
Follow the wizard!
Once it is on, you will need to configure your site, or alternatively any secure folders within your site, to be forced to use https, otherwise you will be able to access pages both securely and unsecurely by using https or http respectively.
Plus (something we forgot to do), make sure your firewall between web server and web has https port open
443 I think, possibly 444 - Our firewall has an object called HTTPS to make it easy to open that port, but unlesss you look further the port number is not displayed by default - anyway, I'm rambling now!
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