For those of you who might not be aware of what S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is, this short description might be helpful.
As most of you are aware, emails in general are mostly insecure if they are not digitally signed and their transport isn't encrypted. With S/MIME, the messages can be digitally signed, which can be seen as a guarantee that the sender is the person they claim to be and not someone else. With the use of S/MIME, the contents and attachments of messages can also be encrypted.
In Exchange 2013 RTM, the support for S/MIME was removed for OWA, but it was brought back when Service Pack 1 was released and it is still available in Exchange 2016.
For this recipe, I've decided to use an internal PKI solution based on Windows Server 2016 for issuing certificates to users for securing their emails and ensuring...