SSL Certificate missing from dropdown in SQL Server Configuration Manager

Question

I am trying to configure SQL Server 2014 so that I can connect to it remotely using SSL. A valid, wildcard cert is installed on the server, and the cert\'s domain name (example.

Answer 1

I faced similar issue in SSRS, wherein certificate issued by microsoft active directory CA was not visible in the dropdown in SSRS. After lot of searches, trial and error I could fix it by following this link.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/sqlserverfaq/can-tls-certificate-be-used-for-sql-server-encryption-on-the-wire

Brief of it is as below: The Subject property of the certificate must indicate that the common name (CN) is the same as the host name or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the server computer.

So in our case we suggested to request the Certificate Authority to change the Subject name to ABC-SQLServer.abc.local (FQDN of SQL Server) instead of abc-corp.abc.com Once this change was done, we loaded certificate again in MMC and now we could see the certificate loaded in SQL Server Configuration Manager!

Hope it helps someone facing same issue!