The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed

29Jun10

Hi everyone! Long time since I posted something worthwhile. Today I received the message below on an Exchange 2010 box after importing a certificate from a local enterprise CA.

Apparently this is related to the following KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979694). Not for us as we didn’t use a third party certificate! Apparently this problem was associated with the enterprise CA settings involving the Certificate Revocation List distribution point. To solve we adjusted some settings as you can see in the images below.

Which should be adjusted to:

Apparently exchange doesn’t like to contact it’s CDP when using LDAP. The LDAP query also did not return any certificate when opening it through CertUtil.

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1 Danni on October 8, 2010 said:

Well Done, this articles very helpful and useful

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2 bobo on April 7, 2011 said:

Awesome!!! Worked like a charm. Spent three hours looking for a solution. Thanks man!

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