GP 2013 Web Client trouble

"The host name cannot contain special characters such as an asterisk (*)."

That is the message we were getting after the SSL certificate we used for our demo GP 2013 web client expired and was replaced.

The problem occurred when we tried to replace the certificate with an updated one.  The install was giving us trouble.  We received the message when we tried to select the certificate on installation.

What would happen is we would select the certificate, which was installed on port 443 of IIS just fine, and the web client installer would fill in the "Host Name" from the certificate.

The problem is it would fill in the Host Name along with OU and CN reference in a comma-delimited string.

Look closely at the data in the Host Name field - you can see it starts to run on with extra characters above and beyond the fully qualified domain name of the server.  THAT is the cause of the error we were getting.

It took us much tail chasing but we found if you cleared the rest of the data after the server FQDN then the error goes away and the install completes.