Windows Azure Storage Certificate Expired

Nick Olsen picture Nick Olsen · Feb 22, 2013 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

The certificate for our Azure blob storage expired today. This is not a certificate provided by us but provided by Microsoft as show in the picture below. How does one go about fixing this? I have tried searching for a solution but found nothing. Our app cannot connect to the storage as the certificate has expired and we are getting an error indicating: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel

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dr. foot fist headknocker picture dr. foot fist headknocker · Feb 22, 2013

As a temporary measure I was able to log into the azure portal and change the protocol part of the connection string from https to http.