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26-Jun-2014
SQL Yoga : Certificate Expired, Mirroring Stopped

Database Administrators might face this issue while certificate gets expired and database mirroring (Non domain database mirroring) gets disconnected as two servers, Primary and Secondary cannot communicate with each other. The error message can be found in Log as follows: Message Database Mirroring login attempt failed with error: 'Connection handshake failed. The certificate used by this endpoint was not found: Certificate expired. Use DBCC CHECKDB in master database to verify the metadata integrity of the endpoints. State 85.'. [CLIENT: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] In this post, We are going to review step by step process to resolve this issue by providing renew parameters with certificate configurations.