Advice needed on installing CA on Windows Server 2008 for CUPS Calendar Integration

[James Hawkins]

Hi,

I am trying to configure CUPS 8.0 to connect to Exchange 2008 to retrieve calendar information as detailed in the integration note at the link below:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cups/8_0/english/integration_notes/ExchInt.html

I have successfully completed everything up to the section Installing the CA on Windows Server      2008 but am now running into problems.

When I run the Role Services Wizard I get options to install Certificate Authority and  Certificate Authority Web Enrollment but not  Online Responder.

Can anyone advise why this would be the case?

It may or may not be relevant but the server that the customer has told me to install the CA on is a domain controller - could this be the issue?

[James Hawkins]

A bit more information - below is some of the output generated by the Windows systeminfo cli command.

Host Name:                 DOMDAT02

OS Name:                   Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Standard

OS Version:                6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001

OS Manufacturer:           Microsoft Corporation

OS Configuration:          Primary Domain Controller

OS Build Type:             Multiprocessor Free

Registered Owner:          V2C

Registered Organization:   V2C

Product ID:                55041-339-2169613-76816

Original Install Date:     25/01/2009, 18:29:39

System Boot Time:          11/06/2011, 08:50:34

System Manufacturer:       VMware, Inc.

System Model:              VMware Virtual Platform

System Type:               X86-based PC

Processor(s):              1 Processor(s) Installed.

                           [01]: x64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 Genuine ~2494 Mhz

BIOS Version:              Phoenix Technologies LTD 6.00, 22/09/2009

Windows Directory:         C:\Windows

System Directory:          C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device:               \Device\HarddiskVolume1

System Locale:             en-gb;English (United Kingdom)

Input Locale:              en-gb;English (United Kingdom)

Time Zone:                 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh,, London

The server is running Windows Server 2008 Standard and according to the Microsoft doc at the link below this does not support the Online Responder service.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772393(WS.10).aspx

Could the problem be that I need a server running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise?

[William Bell]

James,

Not that this solves your problem, but I suspect you don't see the Online Responder option because the Online Responder service is not loaded. That is just my WAG.  See this link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725937.aspx

HTH.

Regards,

Bill

[James Hawkins]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the response. The first paragraph of the document you linked to states:

An Online Responder can be installed on any computer running Windows  Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Windows  Server 2008 Enterprise, or Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. The  certificate revocation data can come from a certification authority (CA)  on a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008,  Windows Server 2003, or from a non-Microsoft CA.

It seems that this confirms my findings that the Online Responder is not supported on Windows Server 2008 Standard. It seems a bit crazy to have to buy a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise license just for this functionality but that seems to only "official" option that will work.

I also found some mention of a Microsoft utility called "makecert" that can be used to generate certificates. It is positioned as a testing tool but it seems that some people are using the certificates generated by it to link CUPS and Exchange in production networks. I have ordered Michael's book - see URL below - which covers using makecert so that may resolve the issue but I would be interested in other comments and feedback on the use of certificates.

http://htluo.blogspot.com/2009/01/cups-calendar-integration.html