SSL certificate management operations

APPLIES TO: 2013 2016 2019 Subscription Edition SharePoint in Microsoft 365

The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate management feature allows you to monitor and manage the lifecycle of SSL certificates in your SharePoint farm, from acquisition and deployment to usage, expiration, and renewal.

This article focuses on the following SSL certificate management operations:

• Create new certificates
• Import certificates
• Assign certificates to web applications
• Replace a certificate assignment
• Remove certificates
• View certificates
• Export certificates
• Outgoing SMTP support for client certificate authentication
• Renew certificates
• Rename certificate friendly names
• Move certificates between certificate stores
• View certificate default settings
• Set certificate default settings
• Certificates administration action logging
• SSL certificate management in central administration
• New health analyzer rules for SSL certificates
• Private key management for SSL certificates