Enabling Secure Connection for Web Services: Update Certificate Binding

Microsoft Dynamics GPThis post is part of the Enabling Secure Connection for Web Services series.

The first step in enabling a secure connection for web services, is to bind the certificate to the port which will be used for secure access. As mentioned in the last post, I am using port 48666.

There are two commands which need to be run to bind the certificate; these need to be run via an elevated command prompt.

The first command registers the certificate for the new port; there are three parameters (highlighted) which need to be changed in the command:

  1. Port
  2. certhas which is the certificate thumbnail
  3. appid which is an arbitrary GUID; I generated a GUID using the SQL Server NEWID() command

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