Comments on: Why You Can’t Use a Wildcard Certificate for CWA 2007 R2 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/why-you-cant-use-a-wildcard-certificate-for-cwa-2007-r2/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:59:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tom Pacyk http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/why-you-cant-use-a-wildcard-certificate-for-cwa-2007-r2/comment-page-1/#comment-921 Tom Pacyk Sun, 24 May 2009 19:22:33 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/why-you-cant-use-a-wildcard-certificate-for-cwa-2007-r2/#comment-921 <p>That's great info, Aidan. I was curious what the reasoning behind that design was. Thanks!</p> That’s great info, Aidan. I was curious what the reasoning behind that design was. Thanks!

]]> By: Aidan (MSFT) http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/why-you-cant-use-a-wildcard-certificate-for-cwa-2007-r2/comment-page-1/#comment-912 Aidan (MSFT) Fri, 22 May 2009 00:17:47 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/why-you-cant-use-a-wildcard-certificate-for-cwa-2007-r2/#comment-912 <p>The decision to go with domain prefixes instead of suffixes was mainly to get around the 2 connection limit in older versions of IE (see http://cometdaily.com/2007/11/11/the-dreaded-2-connection-limit/). Desktop viewing can be very chatty, and it was important to make sure the other conferencing experiences did not suffer. </p> <p>We actually recommended SAN certificates, instead of wildcard certs because of IE limitations.</p> The decision to go with domain prefixes instead of suffixes was mainly to get around the 2 connection limit in older versions of IE (see http://cometdaily.com/2007/11/11/the-dreaded-2-connection-limit/). Desktop viewing can be very chatty, and it was important to make sure the other conferencing experiences did not suffer.

We actually recommended SAN certificates, instead of wildcard certs because of IE limitations.

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