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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook

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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring S/MIME for OWA


For those of you who might not be aware of what S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is, this short description might be helpful.

As most of you are aware, messages or e-mails, in general, are mostly insecure if they are not digitally signed and their transport isn't encrypted. With S/MIME, the messages can be digitally signed, which can be seen as a guarantee that the sender is the person they claim to be and not anyone else. With the use of S/MIME, the contents and attachments of messages can be encrypted.

In Exchange 2013 RTM, the support for S/MIME was removed for OWA, but it was brought back when Service Pack 1 was released, which was great.

For this recipe, I've decided to use an internal PKI solution based on Windows Server 2012 R2 for issuing certificates to users for securing their e-mails and ensuring their identities. The important thing to keep in mind, when implementing this in production, is that it's recommended that you use certificates...