I like to create my own self signed certificate when
deploying worker roles and using Remote Desktop.This is so that I can share the certificate with the team
rather than have a locally created certificate without a backup and other issues on my local
machine.
The best way to do that is to manually create a private
export key certificate
Launch a VS2012 Command Prompt.
Execute makecert
makecert
-sv ALPerformanceCounter.pvk -sky exchange
-ir LocalMachine -in ALPerformanceCounter -pe -n
CN="ALPerformanceCounter" ALPerformanceCounter.cer
Execute
pvk2pfx
pvk2pfx -pvk
ALPerformanceCounter.pvk -spc ALPerformanceCounter.cer -pfx
ALPerformanceCounter.pfx -po abc123
This will now create a private key.
Import the private key pfx in your local certificate storage
under personal storage.
Using certmgtr.msc open the certificate. Under details
ensure you have
“You have a private key that corresponds to this certificate”
Select Details TAB -> Edit Properties
Change Friendly Name and Description to ALPerformanceCounter.
Now when packaging the worker role.
Select the Enable Remote Desktop for all roles. When selecting the certificate the Friendly Name Certificate will be available for you
to select and use.
When deploying ensure you have uploaded the private
certificate in the cloud service.
