Hello everyone and thanks for your help in advance. I have installed a new Exchange Server 2013 server and want to connect Outlook 2013 to the server. Here is where I am confused. Initially I would like to use a self signed certificate and I see Exchange 2013 automatically installs a certificate on the default server. In older versions, you would navigate to the certificate server and download and install the certificate on the client machine prior to configuring Outlook.  But I am not sure this is necessary, or how to download and install the certificate on the client.  Any help would be appreciated.

Outlook 2013 cant connect to Exchange 2013: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/1b4dc21c-c745-4699-8eee-423105608dcd/outlook-2013-cant-connect-to-exchange-2013

how to Export a Certificate request file from Exchange 2013: http://www.careexchange.in/how-to-use-a-internal-windows-ca-certificate-authority-in-windows-2012-with-exchange-2013/

When connecting to an Exchange server using Outlook 2013 you may encounter an SSL trust error: http://exchangeserverpro.com/outlook-2013-ssl-trust-errors-when-connecting-to-exchange-server/

Hi,

Generally, it is suggested to use a Public CA certificate for your Exchange services. A third-party certificate is generally trusted by public machine. If you use a self-signed certificate for your Exchange services on Outlook connection, the certificate would not be trusted by the client machine. And a security alert for certificate issue (not trusted) would be prompted out when you setup Exchange account in Outlook. For example:

We can do the following steps in client side to add the certificate in your trusted root Certificate Authorities manually:

Click View Certificate > Install Certificate > Local Machine > Next > Place all certificates in the following store > Browse... > select Trusted Root Certification Authorities > OK > Next > Finish > OK > OK > Yes (Do you want to continue using this server?).

Additionally, we can create a group policy object and import this certificate into "Computer Settings\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Public Key Policies\Trusted Root Certification Authorities".  Link the GPO at the domain level to have it apply to all computers in the organization.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/asiasupp/archive/2007/05/29/self-signed-certificate-issue-when-connecting-to-the-exchange-server.aspx

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Thanks for all the responses.  Here is my question.  Assuming I want to use the self signed certificate initially, however, I am unsure how to access it and install it.  When I go to OWA, the certificate error message allows you to view the certificate, but not install it.  So I am not sure how to get to a point of being able to install it.  In older installs, you would go to the cert server and request the chain.  I'm not sure how to do this.