2826568 - How to renew/install Client Certificate used in S/4HANA Cloud or SAP Marketing Cloud?

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• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP Marketing Cloud 

The client certificate used for authentication in the Outbound Communication Arrangement(s) has expired.

As described in the announcement that the customer receives, Your S/4HANA cloud systems, acting as clients, will be affected for those communication scenarios which have outbound communication, and which use certificate-based authentication.

Please follow the below instructions to download the latest Client Certificate:

1. Login to the communication Arrangements App and select the communication arrangement by clicking on it.
   
   
   
   
2. Please click on highlighted Display button next to Communication System
   
   
   
   
3. Please Scroll Down to the “Outbound Communication” section and click on Download button for downloading the certificate to
   your local desktop.
   
   
   
   
4. Please follow the steps mentioned in below blog to upload it to system used in this communication arrangement.
   
   https://blogs.sap.com/2017/06/05/cloud-integration-how-to-setup-secure-http-inbound-connection-with-client-certificates/

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