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Add AFD renewal
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nickdevdfe committed Aug 10, 2023
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The certificates are monitored and owners are notified via email before expiry by either the provider or the [Platform support team](/infrastructure/support/#platform-support). If Key vault automated renewal is configured, this can be ignored.

### Azure Front Door (AFD) Renewal

AFD should automatically renew SSL certificates, however there are times this process may get stuck.

- Login the azure portal
- Submit a PIM request
- Go to the associated AFD
- Go to domains section
- For the domain name, under 'Validate State' you'll see 'pending'. Note that the certificate type should be 'AFD Managed'
- Regenerate the TXT records, this may take several attempts.
- Then click 'update' to update the 'DNS record status' which should show up after 'regenerate'
- It will take approximately 5 mins to process.
- Confirm that the _dnsauth record for the entry has been updated in the DNS zone.
- Check statuscake, you should see that the certificate is updated. You may need to do a forced test.

## Check certificate

In order to view certificate expiry details such as expiry date, etc., you can run the following command to download the certificate currently being used on a website. In this example, we are focusing on _https://find-postgraduate-teacher-training.education.gov_.uk :
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