How to enable SSL on Enterprise Vault

[bagrationi]

Hello,

Guys do you have some experience or solutions to how to enable SSL on IIS directories for Enterprise Vault machine - any step-by-step guide or articles... ?

So, i need this operation on EVault 8.0 SP3 ver. to change HTTP 80 port to HTTPS 443..


Thanks in advance,

[MichelZ]

You should find a lot of guides on the internet for IIS configuration. Once configured, you need to set the port in the VAC. You then may have to rebuild shortcuts to reflect the changes, depending on your needs. Cheers

[bagrationi]

Ok, thanks

[JesusWept3 · Accepted solution]

To set up IIS to use HTTPS you can use the following:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324069

Do not forget to create the SSL certificates needed to stop any IE warnings regarding security
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299875

Once this has been set up, you will need to enable the https option in the site properties, synchronize all the users and then use RestoreShortcutBody registry key to change the URLs from http to https.... note though that this will take some time depending on how many users and shortcuts there are to process as well as retrieving the DVS files from storage 

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/282855.htm

Note that because it is updating and changing every shortcut message, it can cause the Exchange transaction logs to grow exponentially, and if it gets interrupted (say for backup mode) when it restarts it will start from the beginning and update shortcuts , regardless if they've previously been updated.

What i would suggest is doing a Run Now using Shortcut Processing against a select number of users in batches, then removing the key during regular archive runs
because if you have the restoreshortcutbody your archiving throughput will be minimal

[bagrationi]

Firstly, thanks a lot for your attention .... your suggestions was so helpful.

Change HTTP to HTTPS passed successfully


Thanks again,

[JesusWept3]

dont forget to mark one as a solution