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Upgrading MSS 27
If you choose not to purchase a signed certificate
from a third-party CA, you may choose to install the
self-signed certificate into the trusted certificate store
on every client that uses Web-Portal. IE 7 must be run
with administrative privileges to perform this change,
and it must be performed on each client who will use
Web-Portal.
Wildcard Certificates in Web portal not working
with IE 7
Internet Explorer’s handling of wildcard certificates
changes between IE 6 and IE 7, and for older versions
of MSS, wildcard SSL certificates will not work in IE 7
with Web-Portal. A wildcard certificate is one that
includes an asterisk as the hostname portion of the
certificate’s common name. For example, a wildcard
certificate for 3Com Corporation would have a
common name of “*.3com.com”.
3Com recommends that you upgrade to MSS
5.0.11.4 or later. The Web Portal feature now handles
wildcard certificates in a manner that is compatible
with both IE 6 and IE 7.
Windows Vista Driver interoperability issues
Windows Vista drivers are relatively new and have not
yet reached the maturity level of Windows XP drivers.
3Com recommends that you use the most recent
Vista drivers available from the manufacturer’s web-
site. If that does not resolve the issue, you can try to
run the Windows XP drivers for your wireless NIC;
some of them may run under Vista and provide better
results.
3WXM support in Windows Vista
3WXM does not officially support Windows Vista yet,
so there may be some interoperability issues. Official
support will be included in an upcoming release of
3WXM. Known issues include installer issues for the
standalone client and the server, as well as intermit-
tent failures to launch the Webstart Client.
3Com recommends that you do not run the 3WXM
server on Windows Vista or Longhorn; use Windows
Server 2003 instead. For clients accessing a 3WXM
server who have no other choice of OS, run the Java
Webstart client or use Microsoft’s “Remote Desktop”
client to connect to a Windows XP computer and run
the client from there.
Vista Client interoperability issues
Vista client PCs have an interoperability problem with
a Windows 2003 certificate server. The Windows
2003 certificate server must be patched with some
files from a Windows Longhorn server. This URL gives
the details:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922706
Upgrading MSS
Preparing the WX Switch for the Upgrade
CAUTION: Create a backup of your WX switch
files before you upgrade the switch. 3Com rec-
ommends that you make a backup of the switch
before you install the upgrade. If an error occurs