Renewing an Expired SBS 2003 SSL Certificate

Most of you have probably already renewed your certificates as they started to expire in 2008.

Its a simple procedure it involves running the "Connect to the Internet" wizard in server configuration.

To renew an sbs2003 Certificate:

1. Click Start, and then click Server Management. In the console tree, click Internet and E-mail. In the details pane, click Connect to the Internet.
2. On the Connection Type page, select Do not change connection type, and then click Next.
3. On the Firewall page, select Do not change firewall configuration, and then click Next.
4. On the Services Configuration page, ensure that the appropriate network services are selected, and then click Next.
5. On the Web Services Configuration page, ensure that the appropriate Web services are selected, and then click Next.
6. On the Web Server Certificate page, select Create a new Web server certificate, type the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of your server (for example: server.contoso.com), and then click Next.
7. On the Internet E-mail page, select Do not change Internet e-mail configuration, and then click Next.
8. On the Completing the Configure E-mail and Internet Connection Wizard page, click Finish.

Now this is all good if it succeeds.

If you get an Error on the FIREWALL configuration stage click OK to continue, now you will need to restart the server to be able to restart the HTTP SSL Service which when you try to start it an error occurs stating Error 2: the File cannot be found.

After restarting our server this error disappeard and we had a new SSL certificate for another 5 years.

-Fr33ze