Using Certificates For Hosted Service in Windows Azure

Introduction

Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in Azure.

Question: What is using certificates for hosted service in Azure?

In simple terms "It is used to authenticate and manage the security of a hosted service".

Step 1: Start up a Visual Studio command prompt with Administrator access mode. 

Step 2: The following command should be used in the command prompt:

makecert -sky exchange -r -n "CN=MVC Corp" -pe -a sha1 -len 2048 -ss My "MVC Corp.cer"

Step 3: Open certmgr.msc.

Step 4: Navigate to personal certification and look up for created certificate.

Step 5: Export the certificate.

Step 6: The Export Certificate Wizard fires up, as in:

Step 7: Export with a private key and follow all further screen options.

Step 8: Add a certificate in the Azure portal.

Step 9: Add a certificate file for the hosted service.