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Allan Tee

2004-11-17, 5:50 pm

Windows 2000 SP3 with latest patches installed
Exchange 2000 SP3 using SSL for OWA users

We created another web site in IIS and installed a Verisign certificate to
enable us to use SSL for our users. Problem is every after server restart, we
have to type 443 in the SSL Port textbox of that particular web site in IIS.
When we used SSL in Default Web Site of IIS before, this was not a problem.
Is this a bug? Whats the workaround for this? We are restarting our
exchange server several times a week so the disappearing act of SSL Port 443
is a major problem for us.

Please reply.

Thanks.
Bernard

2004-11-18, 2:48 am

Try setting this using ESM.

--
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/



"Allan Tee" <Allan Tee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9800E243-A89A-4547-91F4-F68FA4CD1041@microsoft.com...
> Windows 2000 SP3 with latest patches installed
> Exchange 2000 SP3 using SSL for OWA users
>
> We created another web site in IIS and installed a Verisign certificate to
> enable us to use SSL for our users. Problem is every after server restart,

we
> have to type 443 in the SSL Port textbox of that particular web site in

IIS.
> When we used SSL in Default Web Site of IIS before, this was not a

problem.
> Is this a bug? Whats the workaround for this? We are restarting our
> exchange server several times a week so the disappearing act of SSL Port

443
> is a major problem for us.
>
> Please reply.
>
> Thanks.



Karl Levinson, mvp

2004-11-18, 7:47 am

Often this occurs in Windows 2000 because your settings first get stored to
a cached copy of the IIS metabase in memory and Windows fails to save the
settings to disk when Windows is shut down for various reasons.

The workaround for me usually is to manually stop and restart the IIS www
service after making the change, and confirm that the setting is still
there.


"Allan Tee" <Allan Tee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9800E243-A89A-4547-91F4-F68FA4CD1041@microsoft.com...
> Windows 2000 SP3 with latest patches installed
> Exchange 2000 SP3 using SSL for OWA users
>
> We created another web site in IIS and installed a Verisign certificate to
> enable us to use SSL for our users. Problem is every after server restart,

we
> have to type 443 in the SSL Port textbox of that particular web site in

IIS.
> When we used SSL in Default Web Site of IIS before, this was not a

problem.
> Is this a bug? Whats the workaround for this? We are restarting our
> exchange server several times a week so the disappearing act of SSL Port

443
> is a major problem for us.
>
> Please reply.
>
> Thanks.



Allan Tee

2004-11-22, 2:47 am

thanks for replying karl. is your workaround temporary? becuase i tried it
but after server restart 443 disappears again. i did what you suggested to
type 443 then restart IIS. 443 still disappears.

"Karl Levinson, mvp" wrote:

> Often this occurs in Windows 2000 because your settings first get stored to
> a cached copy of the IIS metabase in memory and Windows fails to save the
> settings to disk when Windows is shut down for various reasons.
>
> The workaround for me usually is to manually stop and restart the IIS www
> service after making the change, and confirm that the setting is still
> there.
>
>
> "Allan Tee" <Allan Tee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9800E243-A89A-4547-91F4-F68FA4CD1041@microsoft.com...
> we
> IIS.
> problem.
> 443
>
>
>

Allan Tee

2004-11-22, 2:47 am

thanks for the reply. ESM = exchange systems manager? bernard, i know you
can set require SSL in ESM but not specify 443 SSL port. how do you set 443
SSL port in ESM? i still have this problem. thanks.

"Bernard" wrote:

> Try setting this using ESM.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah
> http://www.tryiis.com/
> http://support.microsoft.com/
> http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
>
>
>
> "Allan Tee" <Allan Tee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9800E243-A89A-4547-91F4-F68FA4CD1041@microsoft.com...
> we
> IIS.
> problem.
> 443
>
>
>

Bernard

2004-11-22, 2:47 am

I'm not familiar with exchange, but I have see posting saying to configure
this via ESM.

refer -
http://groups.google.com.my/groups?...40phx.gbl#link2

--
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/



"Allan Tee" <Allan Tee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68CA38BF-34B2-46D6-B14F-BE0481CAC806@microsoft.com...
> thanks for the reply. ESM = exchange systems manager? bernard, i know you
> can set require SSL in ESM but not specify 443 SSL port. how do you set

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> SSL port in ESM? i still have this problem. thanks.
>
> "Bernard" wrote:
>
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Allan Tee

2004-11-26, 8:46 pm

Hi Bernard,

Your response solved my problem. SSL port 443 does not disappear anymore
from IIS after server restart after adding it via ESM. Thanks very much!!!

Allan Tee

"Bernard" wrote:

> I'm not familiar with exchange, but I have see posting saying to configure
> this via ESM.
>
> refer -
> http://groups.google.com.my/groups?...40phx.gbl#link2
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah
> http://www.tryiis.com/
> http://support.microsoft.com/
> http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
>
>
>
> "Allan Tee" <Allan Tee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:68CA38BF-34B2-46D6-B14F-BE0481CAC806@microsoft.com...
> 443
> certificate to
> restart,
> in
> Port
>
>
>

Bernard

2004-11-29, 2:47 am

Woohooo

Glad you fixed it.

--
Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/



"Allan Tee" <Allan Tee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3EACEAD3-5E95-429A-9A20-97B289AEC10A@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Hi Bernard,
>
> Your response solved my problem. SSL port 443 does not disappear anymore
> from IIS after server restart after adding it via ESM. Thanks very much!!!
>
> Allan Tee
>
> "Bernard" wrote:
>
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