EndUserSharePoint.com: Security certificates and blocked SharePoint content
The question of the day comes from Shane:
My company upgraded to IE 7 and I have a couple site with the OWA accessing inboxes, cal, etc. With IE 7, when I go to the site the web part with Outlook, access is blocked and the following error is shown: “To help protect your security, IE has blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors. Click here for options..”
I can click the option to diplay blocked content but would rather find away to setup so this does’t come back. Have you heard of this and know what I can do to get around it?
Reply from Chris Quick
Shane,
Sounds like the certificate was either generated internally from an enterprise root certificate authority and is not in the list of trusted certificates that IE7 uses or the certificate is set up with an incorrect url (ie, the certificate was generated for www.mysite.com and is being used with email.mysite.com).
You might try placing both the OWA site and the SharePoint site into the trusted zone of IE7, but I don’t know if that will get around the error. The best solution would be to have a certificate generated by VeriSign or some other official agency so all browsers will trust the certificate.
As a side note: to see a list of trusted root certificates, go to Tools > Internet Options. Then choose the Content tab. Click on Publishers under Certificates and then choose the tab for Trusted Root Certification Authorities. You can also look to see if any certificates have been added to trusted publishers tabs. This is usually done in enterprises by server administrators, so you need to check with your IT group to make sure the certificate is added, or can be added to your list of trusted certificates.
Additionally, you can import a certificate to trust on non-enterprise systems, but your IT group will have to provide the file with the certificate information — you may have to sell your firstborn to have them even consider it.
Chris
