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Assign Existing Blackboard SSL Cert to Collab Tools

Submitted by miked on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 10:50

For a while I've been wrestling with getting SSL to work with the Blackboard Collab tools. This article outlines how to take your existing IIS cert you use for Blackboard and use it for the collab tools.

  • Open the Certificates MMC making sure you select Local Computer
  • Right click and on cert to be used and select export
  • Export the private key
  • Select to include all certs in the path
  • Give the exported cert a password (you'll use this later)
  • Give the exported cert a filename (you'll use this later)
  • Click finish
  • Open the blackboard/config/bb-config.properties file
  • Find this section and change the filename and password parameters
    1. ##      use this to configure the collab server ssl settings       ##
    2. bbconfig.collabserver.keystore.filename=<filename>.pfx
    3. bbconfig.collabserver.keystore.password=<your password chosen>
    4. bbconfig.collabserver.keystore.type=PKCS12
    5.  
  • Run a PushConfigUpdates blackboard/tools/admin/PushConfigUpdates.bat on Windows

When you finish this process you should have working encrypted collab tools using a legitimate publically signed cert. Please leave any questions or comments and I'll do my best to address them. Thanks!