Introduction:

In this article we are going to see how to delete an existing old certificate in Azure application using the Azure management portal. Check my previous article on how to add a new certificate to Azure application to see on the step by step process of adding new service certificate to azure application

Overview:

Deleting a certificate will provide the breakage for the trusted connection between the applications online as well as the remote desktop process. But to upgrade the certificate or to drop and add a new certificate definitely we should be aware of how to delete an old certificate of Azure application that resides in the Azure Management portal. In this sample we will delete the certificate which we created in our earlier article on how to add a new certificate to azure application. Let us jump start to see the step by step process on how to delete the certificate in Azure Management Portal.

Steps:

Login to the Windows Azure portal using the below link and we will see the screen as shown below

www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/

Provide your login credentials by clicking on the Sign in to management portal as highlighted in the above screen, after succesful login we will redirected to a nice interface as shown in the screen below

Click in the Hosted Services, Storage Account and CDN option of the left Menu as shown in the screen below

Now Click on Hosted Services menu and we will see the listed of hosted applications to the server as shown in the screen below. In that we can see the certificate which we added in our earlier article as highlighted below

Now click on that certificate and we can see an option Delete Certificate option on the left top corner of the tool bar as shown in the screen below.

Now we will see a pop up window asking for a confirmation to delete the certificate or not as shown in the screen below

Clicking on Yes will start the process to delete the certificate in the application and we can see the progress as highlighted in the screen below

Once the certificate is deleted we can see the list not showing the Certificate which we created in our earlier article as shown in the screen below

Conclusion:

So in this article we have seen how to delete an old existing certificate from the Azure application in Azure management portal