GCP - 'The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.'

[gil_data]

I have read different post about this error.

My understanding is that PBI destktop must connect to a DB through SSL.

My DB is a Postgre DB on GCP. I can generate *.pem files for my instance.

I got server-ca.pem, client-key.pem and client-cert.pem. The last one is the private key so I don't have to play with it but I think I should only need the client-key.pem.

I went to my windows 10 machine and add with MMC the client-key.pem under Trusted Root Certificates. But unfortunately I still have the same error even after a reboot.

I try to follow this answer on this forum : https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/The-remote-certificate-is-invalid-according-to-the-validati...

Any one can help me here ?

[v-eachen-msft]

Hi @gil_data ,

Do you follow this answer?
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Connecting-to-PostgresSQL-hosted-on-AWS-RDS/td-p/135666
The fourth link is forbidden, you could use the following link instead.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/skype-sdk/sdn/articles/installing-the-trusted-root-certificate

[gil_data]

Yes, this is exactly what I have done !
And this is the answer I first found when I hit this error on my search engine.

[amitchandak]

@gil_data , this needs to be converted using a utility and then loaded to the window . I tried some other utility. This one I found.

https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-converter.html

Please check the convert to PKCS#7 and then load to windows