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Renewing Your Federation Certificate

We have created a step-by-step video guide to help you renew your Federation Certificate in the Secura VPC vCloud Director interface. If you’d rather follow a text guide, then we have repeated the steps and the explanation below.

Further Support

Alternatively, you can contact the Secura service desk with your queries using the details below:

T. 0207 183 2540
E. servicedesk@secura.cloud

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Renewing or Regenerating Your Federation Certificate

vCloud Director by design creates a Federation Certificate for every Organisation vDC that is created.

The certificate is valid for one year, after which it expires unless it is renewed or regenerated (as VMware terms it).

Prior to this expiry, you will receive a notification email to your admin email with the date that the certificate is due to expire.

Below is an example email sent from the Secura VPC:

Above: You will receive a reminder email from the Secura VPC with details of the Federation Certificate expiry

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Now you know you need to renew your certificate, you can login into your Secura VPC vCloud Director interface.

Steps:

• Login to your Secura vCloud Director interface
• From the Home Screen click on the Administration link at the top of the screen

Above: Click the Administration Link at the top of the page

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• From the Administration Screen, click on the Federation link in the left side menu

Above: Click the Federation link in the left hand menu

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Above: The SAML Identity Provider checkbox

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• Scroll down the Administration Screen until you see the Certificate section
• Click Regenerate

Above: Click ‘Regenerate’ to renew the Federation Certificate

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• You will now see a pop-up message warning you about the effect that regeneration of the certificate will have on any additional SAML Identity Providers you may be using (see the note on SAML providers above)
• Click OK to continue with the certificate regeneration

Above: Click OK to regenerate Your Federation Certificate

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• You will now see that the Federation Certificate has been renewed for another year from today’s date

Above: Your new Federation Certificate will expire in one year from today’s date

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The renewal process is now complete for another year.

If you want to read a little more on this subject, please visit the VMware website for more details: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2078249.

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Feedback and Support

If you have any questions about this video guide, please feel free to comment below and we will come back to you.

Alternatively, if you already a Secura customer, you can contact the service desk with your queries using the details below:

T. 0207 183 2540
E. servicedesk@secura.cloud

If you have any feedback on the video, we’d love to hear it along with any suggestions for future topics.

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Neal Wilkinson

Head of Marketing

Neal works in the marketing team at Secura and makes sure everyone uses the correct font size on their emails. Sometimes he succeeds.

Tweet me at:
@securacloud

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