Using SSL in Sametime 8.5.x for LDAP connection Part 1

Securing a connection to a LDAP server sounds pretty easy but doing this for a Sametime 8.5 deployment, especially the community server, is far away from easy.

Documentation (Infocenter, Sametime Wiki) is not very clear on this topic and has some conflicting infos.

These are the steps which worked for me.

Configure WAS Servers for secure access to LDAP server

This is pretty easy and is well documented in the Sametime Wiki, you just have to import the public root CA of the LDAP server certificate. In my case I only had the .pfx file of the LDAP server and first hat to export the CA’s root and intermediate certificates.

I will describe what I had to change on the community server in part 2, stay tuned.