Certificate Issues with Windows 7 and IE 8
I have a strange issue with IE 8 under Windows 7 (32-bit). On nearly *any* website that I visit with any kind of SSL component, I receive the following message (drop-down ribbon at top of browser):To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors. Click here for options....I'm fairly certain that this is specific to something strange that has happened with Certificates and/or the Certificate Authority on the Windows domain to which this machine is joined. I have confirmed this by browsing to some of the same sites from a Windows 7 machine joined to a different Windows domain and I do not see the same behavior.I am still somewhat of a novice with Certificate Services and CAs, so I am looking for some help with this one. As I mentioned, I think this points to a bigger problem. I do know that a Certificate Authority on the problem domain was rebuilt at some point in the past and I'm not sure whether it received the same system name when it came back or not.At any rate, can a defunct CA on a domain produce the error above or am I barking up the wrong tree? Also, are there certain Group Policy settings that could be causing this?Thanks for any suggestions. I will check them out on this problem machine and will report back.
December 31st, 2009 12:27am

Im going through the exact same problem and even gmail i cant visit due to the bugging msg which makes me feel unsafe to click to continue,howver after i altered a setting in the public keys via GP it normalized again and now i can visit almost every ssl web site such as email ones...but i think this is a major problem regarding IE8 certs...any help here is greatly appreciate and will be expecting replies just like the thread creater!Kind regards,RR
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December 31st, 2009 1:55am

Does anyone have any ideas on this one? I'm thinking it's pointing back to a problem with the internal CA, but don't know where to begin looking. Thanks.
January 4th, 2010 5:34pm

it seems that MSFT answerers is no longer looking into this type of thread..they r only looking for custumers that are facing installation problems or any other kind of hardware issue etc etc...and that kind of sucks ! mostly of my threads arent being answered ¬¬Kind regards,Hkey
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January 6th, 2010 4:59pm

Jeremy,You recieve this error when your the Certificate Authority (the server that created/issued the certificate).Is not in the trusted root servers.You have 2 options to fix these problems add the CA to the trusted root servers.Or install on your website a new public certificate (you can buy these from verisign.com, godady.com).Versign has a small document that explains the use of certificates.http://www.verisign.com/ssl/ssl-information-center/ssl-resources/guide-ssl-beginner.pdfKind regardsDFTIM me - TWiTTer: @DFTER
January 25th, 2010 6:26pm

Hello RR, I am curious what setting you altered in GP to normalize the problem. Thanks, Jeremy
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January 26th, 2010 7:25pm

Thanks, DFT However, the issue I am having is when we visit any SSL site on a windows 7 machine with IE 8 that has been added to the domain, we get a certificate error. I even get a cert error when visiting yahoo mail, and microsoft mail. If I am on a machine with Windows 7 and IE 8 that is not a member of our domain, I do not get the certificate errors. I checked the date and time on the machine, and it is current. In addition, three of my colleagues are having the same issue with machines that they have added to the domain with Windows 7 and IE 8. There is gotta be something that we need to configure on the domain, possibly in GP, but I cannot figure out what it is. Thanks again for you help! I really do appreciate it. Jeremy
January 26th, 2010 7:29pm

Jeremy,Do your machines have the also the latest root certificates updates?http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=19c4ae49-1127-4537-9e91-35f81d20bce6Kind RegardsDFTIM me - TWiTTer: @DFTER
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January 27th, 2010 2:43pm

DFT, In installed the latest root certificate updates to my machine, and the problem went away. I am now going to send this info to my colleagues. I really do thank you for the help! Jeremy
January 27th, 2010 7:38pm

Hi if you using ssl webpage where cerrtificate error coming and you are using this webpage every day. make this wepage security tab in IE8 trusted website and installed this certificate in trusted root certificate. after this you will not get erro anymore. please keep post thanksNaeem Bhatti MCITP EA, MCITP, MCTS Exchange 2007 MCSE security,MCSE AD, MCSE in Messaging, MCDST SBS2003 and SBS2008 Specialist
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July 23rd, 2010 2:09pm

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