You’ll need to stop and start the SQL Server to make it use the new certificate. To test the certificate-based encryption, you can either click “Force protocol encryption” under the Server Network ...

Force encryption' is a setting you can enable on a SQL server that requires SQL connections ... use a SQL instance currently configured with protocol encryption and TDE, so post back with your ...

In the authentication Tab you will be able to assign the TLSSSL certificate that you purchased from CA and configure the TLS protocol for the virtual SMPT server. You want to force TLS encryption ...