Certificate Exception connecting to Azure SQL with JDBC with default connection string (the one the management console says to use)

Question

I\'m wanting to connect to an Azure SQL Server from jdbc.

I copy the connection string from the azure management console. It is something like:

Answer 1

I've got the same issue on JDBC driver version 4.1, downgrading to 4.0 resolved issue

Answer 2

Turns out an upgrade of the sql server jdbc version to version 4.0 cleaned up the issue.