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