Help on installing Certificates in Vista IE7

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Our mail server requires a certificate to be installed in order to access
the mail through the web. When I pull up the address it ask if I want to
continue to the site. I say yes. Then it flashes red at the top and shows
the word CERTIFICATE in red. I click on it and click VIEW but it doesnt give
me the option to install it.

I then put the website in the Trusted Domains group under the Security Tab
of IE7. I went back to the site and it would allow me to install the
certificate now. However each time I go back to the website it still acts
like no certificate was installed.

How do I install certificates so they will actually take affect and stay?
 
Our mail server requires a certificate to be installed in order to access
the mail through the web. When I pull up the address it ask if I want to
continue to the site. I say yes. Then it flashes red at the top and shows
the word CERTIFICATE in red. I click on it and click VIEW but it doesnt give
me the option to install it.
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In order to install certificates using IE 7 on Vista you must run IE with
Protected Mode off. The easiest way to do that is to elevate IE. Right-click
the Internet Explorer icon and select Run as administrator... Then navigate
to the site and open the cert they way you did before. Now the option to
install the cert is enabled.
 
Jesper said:
In order to install certificates using IE 7 on Vista you must run IE with
Protected Mode off. The easiest way to do that is to elevate IE.
Right-click
the Internet Explorer icon and select Run as administrator... Then
navigate
to the site and open the cert they way you did before. Now the option to
install the cert is enabled.
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What if you're not an administrator?

Do you have to get an administrator to type in his password to get the
certificate installed on your machine?

Can you not simply download the certificate as a CER file, and then install
it manually?

Alun.
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What if you're not an administrator?
Do you have to get an administrator to type in his password to get the
certificate installed on your machine?
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Uhm, yes. Installing new root certificates that are trusted by man and beast
(and kernels) alike is a decidedly administrative operation - not to be
trusted to the untrustworthy.
 
Jesper said:
Uhm, yes. Installing new root certificates that are trusted by man and
beast
(and kernels) alike is a decidedly administrative operation - not to be
trusted to the untrustworthy.
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Sorry - thought it might be a user certificate.

For deploying trusted root certificates throughout a domain, the page at
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...758c0043-17db-44b4-aad1-f23318acdd691033.mspx
should help.

Don't forget to set a reminder to edit the GPO before the certificate
expires!

Alun.
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Ok I went into IE 7 and turned off the Protected Mode. Went and installed
the certificate and it says Certificate Installed Succesful.

However when I exit IE7 and go back into the same web page it still ask for
the certificate. What do I do now?
 
Ok I went into IE 7 and turned off the Protected Mode. Went and installed
the certificate and it says Certificate Installed Succesful.

However when I exit IE7 and go back into the same web page it still ask for
the certificate. What do I do now?
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Chances are good that this really has nothing to do with Protected Mode. It
is more likely that the certificate you're installing is actually an
intermediate certificate rather than a root certificate, which is what you
need to install in order to get rid of the error message. What is the URL
of the site in question?

--
Paul Adare
MVP - Windows - Virtual Machine
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"The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has
survived for centuries without smileys. Only the new crop of modern
computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not clearly
labeled as such."
Ray Shea
 
It shows the certificate under both Intermediate and Root. Now what do we
do?
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Without the URL so I can look at the certificate there's not much more I
can do for you.

--
Paul Adare
MVP - Windows - Virtual Machine
http://www.identit.ca
"The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has
survived for centuries without smileys. Only the new crop of modern
computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not clearly
labeled as such."
Ray Shea
 
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