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Creating a SAN Certificate for Use With RDS 2012

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Create a SAN Certificate for RDS

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MicrosoftRds 2012Virtualisation
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Computer CertificatesCustom RequestEnrollment PolicyRemote Desktop Services 2012Server 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.

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

Ensure that you select Proceed without enrollment policy

Select Legacy Template Key and PKCS#10

Configure the properties.

Enter a friendly name for the certificate and a description .

 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=

Add Server Authentication to the selected options

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

Click Next after configuring the certificate

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