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"The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted" when using NPA to access SQL Server

  • September 13, 2025
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Some of my users are reporting errors when trying to connect to a SQL Server over NPA. The connection is successful but is erroring out due to a cert trust issue:
 

The SQL server has forced encryption turned on; I have verified that the remote host is able to connect over the required ports.

Is there another configuration that is needed to allow NPA to work with SQL Server Forced Encryption, do I need to deploy the Netskope Cert to the SQL servers? 

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  • September 13, 2025

Forgot to add they are accessing via SSMS 20