Some SSL magic

My field is primarily web design and development, but my main employment also includes some end user support duties. Aside from day-to-day tasks like adding users or restoring files from backup, I primarily have left the administration of the server to a network consulting agency. We recently purchased a new server and began migrating from our old server, which was a task I left largely to the agency. I wanted someone with more experience to handle it, since downtime while I muddled through a task I’d never tried would squash my co-workers’ ability to do their jobs, and I didn’t have the resources to do practice runs. But, after some hiccups with the consulting agency, I found myself needing to move our SSL certificate from the new server back to the old server so that Outlook Web Access could continue to run on the old server while some delays with the new server deployment were worked out. I’m pleased to say that after some careful research and some really great phone support from GoDaddy, I managed to move our certificate back to the old server, and got our OWA working again for our remote staff. While I’m not going to try tackling the migration of the Exchange mailboxes, I have decided that my success with this experience was good enough that I’m now going to try installing our anti-virus remote server and our printers onto the new server. My strengths are definitely in web design and programming, but I think that having some level of confidence in networking matters (and knowing when I’m out of my depth) bring a richness to my understanding of the issues involved in keeping a web server running. While I’m not going to pursue networking as a passion as a result of this experience, I do think it will make me a better developer, since I’ll understand issues on the networking side of the fence.