Hi,
I want to assign a certificate to my SQL server to encrypt data between client and server. As the server will be accessible from the internet I registered a certificate with an official certificate authority. The certificate is not visible in the console
to assign to the instance. It is available in IIS.
I already tried to import the certificate in the personal store of the server as well as the personal store of the service account assigned to the engine service for that instance. Also tried to start the SQL configuration console with the service account of the instance, but still the list with available certificates remains empty.
What are the actual requirements for this to work? I now found some people reporting that it need to have the same name as the server. But as the server name is not the same locally in the AD domain compared to the DNS name on the internet, this will never
be the case.
Please advise.
Thanks