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March 11, 2013
Category: microsoft, rds-2012, virtualisation
Tags: computer-certificates, custom-request, enrollment-policy, remote-desktop-services-2012, server-authentication

Creating a SAN Certificate for Use With RDS 2012

When configuring a RDWA Farm, Connection broker HA or Gateway Services it is recommended that you use a SAN or Wild certificate.

SAN certificates allow you to use alternative names providing alternative name resolution for internal and external connections.

Please see the following Link http://www.cacert.org  for Free certificates. I would recommend purchasing certificates for production environments.

Open MMC > add snap in > select Local computer certificates.

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Right click > All Tasks > Advanced Operations > Create Custom Request

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Ensure that you select Proceed without enrollment policy

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Select Legacy Template Key and PKCS#10

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Configure the properties.

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Enter a friendly name for the certificate and a description .

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 Creating the Subject Name of the SAN Certificate

To create the san certificate, you would need to enter the following fields into the subject name.

CN=remotedesktop.example.com

OU=example company

O=IT

POBox=

STREET=downing street

STREET=

STREET=

L=

S=

PostalCode=

C=

Email=

Phone=

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Add Server Authentication to the selected options

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select a Key Size of 4096 and a key type of Exchange Type

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Click Next after configuring the certificate

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Save the request file to a location of your chose.

You can check your CSR using the following tool https://secure.comodo.net/utilities/decodeCSR.html