My Unified Comms certificate for Exchange was up for renewal, Digicert emailed and called me to renew it, although I must say the guy that rang (from the States I think) did sound like he had just woken up, maybe he had lol.
Anyway, as with most things like home insurance and that, it’s easier to renew, but you can normally save some money by shopping around. As I had some free time, I opted for the latter.
After a wee bit of searching, I came across this article which mentioned www.certificatesforexchange.com. Now, bearing in mind that the Digicert UCC renewal price was $328 (£214 in today’s money) for 1 year. In comparision, www.certificatesforexchange.com charged me $71.99 (£47), so quite a saving to be made, £167 to be exact.
From the looks of the interface, there are strong links with GoDaddy, who I have had issues with in the past, and with GoDaddy unable to decide where they stand over the whole SOPA/PIPA issue lately, they are not top of my list. But, money talks, and so I decided to give it a go. So far so good too, I can’t say I’ve ran into any problems. Once I verified all my domains, I installed the certificate and it’s been working happily ever since.
It’s worth noting, that you can easily create the CSR here they copy that into your Exchange Management Shell to create the certificate request, which you can then pop into the form at www.certificatesforexchange.com.
PS, I wrote a previous blog post about the Exchange PowerShell commands, you can find that here.