Hi All I am having great difficulty in getting the RPC over HTTP working. I have create a self signed certificate using SSL Diagnostics and can connect to the https://<servername>/rpc URL fine i get the correct read denied message. However, I am getting the certificate window popup saying the certificate name does not match the website name. i.e. The certificate issuer says just the name of my server rather than the full internet URL. Have I completely stuffed it up or is there a way that the name on the certificate can be modified? Be grateful if someone could help me as i've been triyng to get this thing to work for months now and its really annoying. Also anyone who has successfully got it working please could you contact me so you can guide me through setting it up step by step. Many Thanks in Advance Martin

Hi, You can't modify the name on the certificate but you could issue another one. However, I think you may be stuck with that prompt unless you get a certificate from one of the 3rd party vendors. (I could be wrong). I don't see why it is such a big deal. If the user clicks "yes" or "ok" at the name mismatch prompt then everything should work. If it doesn't, you have some other problem.

Sorry I think you mis-understood. THe /rpc isnt such a big problem. The problem is i canot get Outlook to work using the Exchange over http option, and front what i gather the certificate site name has to be the same as the website URL , if you get the box asking to say yes or no - the outlook rpc exchange over http will not work. I am trying to find someone who has used Outlook 2003 to connect to exchange server using the "Exchange over Http" option. Martin

"front what i gather the certificate site name has to be the same as the website URL" That is not true for Windows/Exchange 2000. I just tried it. Accepted the name mismatch on the cert and got on to OWA no problem. Maybe it is different for 2003. Peter

Hi As i have said I do not have a problem with using OWA with an invalid certificate site name. The problem comes when I want to use the "Exchange over HTTP" functionality of Outlook 2003 as OWA is not that realiable and it keeps requesting me to re-login as my sessions keeps timing out. Also you cannot move messages to public folders using OWA. Unless you know how to stop OWA sessions timing out after less than a minute or timing out when trying to move emails to another folder then I am trying to accomplish exchange over http using outlook 2003. Martin

" Have I completely stuffed it up or is there a way that the name on the certificate can be modified?" "The problem is i canot get Outlook to work using the Exchange over http option, and front what i gather the certificate site name has to be the same as the website URL ," "As i have said I do not have a problem with using OWA with an invalid certificate site name." These statements are completely contradictory and now for the first time you say the real problem is "t keeps requesting me to re-login as my sessions keeps timing out". Sorry, I cannot help under these circumstances.