[dba-Tech] Struggle with import of certificate for VMware in Vista

Thanks for that Gustav... I had been just ignoring the problem and it is
great when the solution appears on the table, in time for breakfast. ;-)

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:51 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Struggle with import of certificate for VMware in Vista

Hi all

If you get tired of accessing the "VMware Infrastructure Web Access",
everytime with a red warning about how dangerous this your own site is while
it is not, you'll have to import the rui.crt certificate of the VMware
hosting server into your certificate store, Trusted Root Certificate
Authorities.

This is easy to do from within Internet Explorer. Just click the certificate
info key icon, choose import and so on. No error messages and all looks
fine.
The only problem is that even though no error messages, nothing happens
really. The certificate does not import.

For a couple of days - on and off - I have been struggling with this
googling countless pages of all kinds of info related to certificates,
VMware, and Internet Explorer with zero results until I located this page:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30768023/sbs-certificate-refuses-
t.aspx 

The key tricks are two:

1. Run Internet Explorer as Administrator
2. Don't just import. Tick the "Show physical stores" tick box and select
the "Local Computer" subfolder within the Trusted Root Certificate
Authorities folder.

That worked.

/gustav


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