[Today's post comes to us courtesy of James Frederickson and Justin Crosby]
Running the CEICW on SBS 2003 on February 29, 2008 and choosing to create a certificate may fail on Secure Web Site Configuration as seen below:
Text of error:
An error occurred while configuring a component.
To continue with the wizard and configure remaining components, click OK.
To end the wizard without configuring the remaining components, click Cancel.
[OK] [Cancel]
You will also see the following errors in icwlog.txt:
Web server name: mail.contoso.com
CCertCommit::ValidatePropertyBag returned OK
Opening the cert store returned OK
Reading the computer name returned OK
Reading the fully qualified server name returned OK
*** Creating the self signed cert returned ERROR 80070057
*** CCertCommit::EnableSSL returned ERROR 80070057
*** CCertCommit::CommitEx returned ERROR 80070057
calling GetBOConnector ().
Error 0x80072030 returned from call to GetBOConnector().
The reasons for this issue is that the when you have the CEICW create a self-signed certificate for your webserver, it uses the current date +5 years. Since there is not a February 29th in the year 2013 the wizard uses an invalid expiration date, which in turn causes the wizard to fail.
To avoid this issue choose the option to " Do not change current Web server certificate " when running the CEICW.
The CEICW will resume normal operation the next day, March 1st, 2008.
