Requesting and assigning a certificate to Lync/Skype for Business server is a crucial process. Any kind of ignorance while requesting the certificate can trouble It simply means that the root certificate of certification authority does not exist on the local server from where the request is being generated.
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- Although not officially a Skype for Business server per say, but often asked about, the WAC server has its own unique certificate requirements. The WAC certificate must have the subject name and SAN of the internal FQDN of the server itself and not the public FQDN that may be assigned from external sources.
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Renewing Certificates in Skype for Business Server 2015 1/25/2016
First thing that was noticed after logging into the FE server was that the Skype4B Front End service was not running on all the FE servers. Therefore there was no routing group quorum to get the entire pool running, which in this case comprised of 3 FE servers. Recall that for a FE Pool of 3 FE servers, we need all 3 FE pools to be started in order to achieve routing group quorum for the pool to be started: At this stage, running the Deployment Wizard and running the '3. Request, Install or Assign Certificates' step clearly showed that the default certificate was missing along with the OAuth certificate: To verify that the certificates were indeed expired, we open the certificates MMC and confirm that the default certificate had expired on 3 Jan 2016 while the oAuth cert had expired earlier on 26 Dec 2015: To resolve this problem, we go back to the Certificate Wizard within the Deployment Wizard and select the three checkboxes under 'Default certificate' and click 'Request' as shown below: This will bring up the Certificate Request page where w need to fill in the relevant details as well as select one or all of the SIP domains which we want a SAN entry for. Note that the SAN list will be automatically populated depending on the SIP domains that we select. To continue we click 'Next': The subsequent steps are pretty straightforward and we just need to click 'Next' to continue the process: Once we complete the certificate assignment, we should return to the certificate wizard and see a green check mark against the new Default FE certificate as shown below. Note the expiry date is 2 years from today: This completes the renewal of the Default certificate on FE1. We now need to perform the same for FE2 and FE3, and since the steps are the same, we shall not repeat them again. Next, we proceed to renew the oAuth certificate for server to server communications. As shown below, on the certificate wizard, we select the OAuthTokenIssuer certificate and click 'Request' to begin the process: In the next screen, it looks similar to the previous request however note that the SAN list is fixed and cannot be changed: The subsequent steps are also straighfoward and we just need to click 'Next' to continue: After assigning the oAuth certificate, we are returned to the Certificate Wizard and this time we see all green check marks on all certificates: Finally, we are ready to start up the FE Pool. The easiest way to do this, instead of rebooting all 3 FE servers manually, is to open the Skype4B management shell on one of the FE servers and run the 'Start-CsPool' cmdlet as shown below. The process will take several minutes and the window will display update status information of the startup process. There's no need to panic if we see any Failed messages at this stage. Simply wait for the pool to go through the startup process: Once the startup process completes, we can see the status of all 3 FE servers as 'Running' which is a good indication that everything went well and smoothly: At this point, our Skype4B FE Pool is up and running and we can once again sign in from the Skype4B clients, IP Phones and Video Endpoints. As can be seen, renewing expired certificates on the FE Pool is not all that difficult or complicated as it may seem to be. 8/4/2016 08:53:58 am Nice, You make me deploy a local certificate beside a public certicate.. Nice step by step .. mess with my sfb deployment. 8/5/2016 12:05:14 am Hi Vinicius These steps are for renewing the internal Skype for Business certificates using an internal CA. If you are using a public certificate for your front-end servers then the steps will be slightly different. 11/21/2018 04:54:37 am No one is making you do anything here. 11/21/2018 04:57:01 am Many thanks for this. Had an issue where both the Default certificate + OAuthTokenIssuer certs had expired. Having no experience of skype for business this helped me to get them renewed and assigned! 3/4/2020 05:42:48 am I had a problem with certificates from lync this morning and your article helped. Thanks a lot. 7/20/2020 11:47:45 pm Gta for mac os x download free. Thanks, it's help Your comment will be posted after it is approved. Leave a Reply. |