Certificate Types for Lync Server

Certificates have traditionally been a difficult subject for earlier versions of Communication Server. For many administrators, OCS 2007 was likely their first exposure to Subject Alternate Name (SAN) certificates. A SAN certificate differs from traditional certificates in one way: SAN certificates contain multiple names where traditional certificates contain only one name. By containing multiple names, a SAN certificate can correctly answer to a hostname, a service name, or a load-balanced name. This greatly simplifies load balancing and geographic redundancy by allowing a system to respond to multiple names using a single certificate when a secure connection is desired.

Lync Server provides a wizard for requesting, ...

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