Important poll for UK schools

[Dos_Box]

We are undertaking a bit of important research and need to find out just how many schools out there require SSl certificates and how many you need. This should include any self signed certificates you currently have to ensure correct operations of your Exchange, VPN, online reporting etc.

This is for UK schools only, but if you are from another country and would like us to run a poll for you please don't hesitate to us

[localzuk]

I've voted 2, but currently only use 1. We will soon have 2 sites - 1 which is our public site, with a school shop, and another which is our webservice site - used by externally managed sites (saves us opening ports to database servers).

[FN-GM]

We use 3

 

Exchange Outlook Web Access

SSL VPN

Moodle

[Dos_Box]

*bump*

Please cast you vote if you haven't done so. This is all in a good cause, trust me

[Dafty]

We use these for certificates :

 

Exchange Outlook Web Access

ePortal (MIS)

SGD (Sun Secure Global Desktop)

Peele.biz (Fundraising website)

[pete]

Exchange

Moodle

OnlineReporting

 

So 3 atm. Unless Janet have wildcard domain certs available (a la GoDaddy)?

[Oops_my_bad]

Voted, but schools can have as many free certs as they want from certs.ipsca.com

[box_l]

i voted 4 +, bit only need one wildcard cert per school. i do however (with my colleagues) support 55 schools. the trouble has not been finding a supplier but getting the local council to respond the the licence provider. the council hold the top level domain name and the provider wants them to respond to the verification request.

 

if any one knows how to get the cert provider to repond to the school direct I would be very greatful!

 

BoX

[dezt]

we use 1 at the moment for exchange

[CyberNerd]

one wildcard

[Diello]

Exchange, Software VPN, MIS, Moodle(pending). We publish instructions for people on how to install our own CA cert into their browsers.

[Gatt]

Can only think of 2 at moment - OWA and VPN...

[Geoff]

What Cybernerd said, a Wildcard cert for our *.schoolname.lea.sch.uk domain.

[TechMonkey]

Ohhh I voted for 3 but a wildcard one sounds the ticket

[linuxgirlie]

We have:

 

Email

MIS (Serco CMIS/ePortal)

Moodle

Website

Home Access

Social Network (elgg)

Radio Server (needs one for admin but not currently running yet)

Karoshi Web Management

VPN

 

So that is 9

[User3204]

Currently we have two self-signed/created ones, one for each wireless network, but I don't really know enough about it.

 

I would think I need one each for: mail, SLG, new (planned) open access wireless, remote/VPN.

 

But if it is possible to have them as *.domainname.sch.uk instead, then maybe I would only need 1.

[leco]

Echo User3204 in that I don't know enough about it. But I have Exchange, a VPN and planned for SLG. If a schoolname.lea.sch.uk was available guess I'd use that (if only I knew what for and how)

[teddybear]

we need one for exchange

[spc-rocket]

I think its worth mentioning that there some servcies such as exchange 2007 requires the use SAN (Subject Alternative Names) certs to pulish servcies such as Outlook anywhere and Exchange Active sync. Wild card certs don't work Exchange activesync (EAS) because some mobile devices don't support them.

 

So please whoever is researching this make sure that SAN certs are inlcuded as i'm sure these will more handy for many services certainly in exchange publishing scenarios.

 

Ash.

[ICTNUT]

We use 4 Per school

 

Remote Access SSL-VPN

Exchange OWA / Activesync

VLE

School Websites

[Marci]

I voted 3... and then thought about it and decided that we actually need at least 6... *oops*

[maniac]

We only have one, but we are planning to launch more web services over the next year, so will probably need 2 or maybe more. Ours are self signed at the moment, and the staff get damned confused when they get the warning screen. One of the things to sort out for the summer is getting a signed certificate!

 

Mike.

[Dantech]

I urgently need one for our Sharepoint server (we invested in an in-house hosted SIMS learning Gateway running full Sharepoint.)

 

If anyone knows the cheapest place to buy these I would be interested.

[Geoff]

These guys:

 

SSL Certificates SSL Wildcard SSL Free Certificates SSL Server Certificate 256 bits

 

Do Single host 2 year certs free for education. If you want to check browser compatibility, point your browser at our webmail system, which is using one of their certs

 

http://webmail.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk/

[Geoff]

These guys:

 

SSL Certificates SSL Wildcard SSL Free Certificates SSL Server Certificate 256 bits

 

Do Single host 2 year certs free for education. If you want to check browser compatibility, point your browser at our webmail system, which is using one of their certs

 

http://webmail.carrhill.lancs.sch.uk/