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Scott__Hastings
Level 5
9 years ago

Convert to https

I need to mofify an existing EV envrinment from http to https. If I do I know I'm breaking all existing shortcuts. How can I mitigate this? Can I accomodate the old http and new https shortcuts? Mayb...
Enterprise Vault
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Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • AndrewB's avatar
    AndrewB
    9 years ago

    from playing around in my lab for a few minutes it looks like it'll come down to how you config IIS to allow both http and https until you're done updating the existing shortcuts. what i did was i changed the site settings in EV to HTTPS, restarted EV, restarted IIS, and ran a sync from the mailbox task. i can still open shortcuts from an outlook client (although it has vault cache so that may not be 100%) and i can still open the "view the original item" which is a regular http link back the EV server.

    now, i cant be 100% how it'll work in your customer's environment so if you have the ability to test on your own it's probably a good idea.

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Scott__Hastings
Level 5
9 years ago

I apoligize for the delayed response. I tested in my lab:

  1. Configure HTTPS at the site level
  2. Configure IIS for http, but allowing http as well
  3. Was able to open http and https shortcuts
  4. Was able to use the V11 EV search from Outlook. 

This will allow us to create https shortcuts moving forward and then rebuild the old shortcuts over time.

Thanks.... If his contadicts anyone's expected behavior, please let me know,