Certificate for Exchange 2010

When importing certificate using Exchange Management Console (EMC) for POP3 protocol, run EMC on the server you import certificate to.  Otherwise it may lead to POP3 protocol not working properly using SSL (port 995) on remote Exchange server.

CRM4 Outlook Client

When, during the configuration process, the CRM server URL supplied as https://crmserver, error pops up. Everything works fine using http://crmserver. Seems that CRM4 Outlook Client can't communicate with CRM server through https. Nice design, Microsoft!

CRM4 MailMerge does not work over https://

Looks like CRM4 Mail Merge requires port 80 to be available to work properly. crmroot/_static folder of the Web site should be accessible through port 80. How nice! (Continue investigation).

Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) for Microsoft Dynamics CRM4 and certificates (SSL)

Issue: with IFD - server should respond with SSL on both https://orgname.domainname.com and https://servername.domainname.com.

Solution: "wild card" certificates.

1. Create and assign "wild card" certificate (http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabh_singh/archive/2007/11/17/wildcard-ssl-certificate-in-iis-6-0-windows-2003-sp1-and-above.aspx)
2. Run CRM4IFDTool.exe to configure IFD to use HTTPS