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 want to add this for future folks that may stumble on a similar issue I encountered with SQL 2016 SP2 and failover cluster. The certificate thumbprint added to the registry had to be all upper case.

Hope this helps the next guy.