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Can I use the same 3rd party FQDN SSL certificate for Client SSL as I already have for IIS web products?

Version 9 Administration Security Installation and Upgrades

Updated May 12, 2014

asked on May 6, 2014

I already have a good SSL certificate setup on my laserfiche server to secure all the web products. I now have a user that's outside my LAN that we need to get full client access to. We could setup a software VPN but i understand that it's possible to just connect over SSL. The admin guide instructions seem unclear to me. It makes me think I need to generate a self signed internal certificate or something to setup SSL or that this certificate needs to be different than what I'm already using in SSL. Can't I simply reuse the certificate already installed?

If I have the good certificate in the Local Computer Personal certificate store would it just use that one automatically or do i still need to be copying around the certificate as the admin guide describes?

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replied on May 12, 2014 • Show version history

The instructions were a little confusing to me also. What I found was that if you have already installed a certificate via IIS that you can just go ahead and make the registry change, then restart the service. It sounds like your already using a certified certificate which means you will not need to make any modifications to the client workstation.

Make sure to only open port 443, if you leave 80 open it is possible for the client to connect without SSL by accident. There is no option to enforce SSL.

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replied on May 12, 2014

This makes it clear. Thanks!

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replied on May 7, 2014 • Show version history

See this video about configuring SSL between the Client and the Laserfiche Server. The certificate that needs to be imported into the Trusted Root Certificate Authority (not the Personal store) for the Local Computer on the Client machine is the same certificate that was imported into the Trusted Root Certificate Authority when SSL was configured for the Laserfiche Server.

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replied on May 12, 2014

Hi Jeremy,

It looks like Brianna's response answered your question! If it did, please click the "This answered my question" button on her post.

If you still need assistance with this matter, just update this thread. Thanks!

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replied on May 12, 2014

I will try Brianna's video. We used a VPN for this solution for now so haven't been able to verify it.

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