I have a SQL Server running on Azure. It's stand-alone, it doesn't have any connection to an AD. Now I want to encrypt my network traffic. SSAS is already fine, you just need to force encryption. With SQL Server 2014 DB engine it's different, you need
a SSL certificate for it. The question for me is: how to apply for a SSL certificate which works with SQL Server. All the instructions I found are either for a domain environment or for a web server. Companies like GoDaddy or Comodo ask you for a CSR file
which ISS can create. So should I install IIS on the machine and request the CSR from there? Will SQL Server be able to use the same certificate? There seems to be some flags SQL Server needs in the certificate and I'm not sure if a web server cert has the
same...
Thomas Pagel