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Windows 2008 R2 Certificate for Remote Desktop Expiring, how to handle this?
On Windows Server 2008 R2 I was reviewing my certificates and I noticed that the remote desktop certificate is expiring soon. It is a non trusted certificate according to the mmc. I never had to renew anything in regards to this on Windows 2003. Need to know if I have to renew this or replace it and how so that I can still remote into this server after this expires. Or maybe there is no impact. Can someone please help me with this. Thanks.
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So I think he is saying that if I just restart the remote desktop service AFTER it expires that would fix this. Is that what you think will work. I tried it wihtout it actually expiring and no change to the certificate occured??
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Well that did work. I deleted it and it recreated it but it gave me the same time lenght. I guess I will have to do this again when it expires. This information was a great help. Thank you.
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Excellent Answer.
"Turns out restarting the Remote Desktop Configuration service will renew the certificate if it is expired. I did not have to delete it first however I did test on another server by deleting it then restarting the service. It still properly created the certificate. Doing so generates an event log message:"