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Author: KCCross

Exchange/ExchangeServer/administration/certificate-assignment-fails-invalid-characters.md

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 ## Summary
 
-When you assign certificates to Exchange Server services, you might encounter error 0xe0434352 during the certificate binding process. This error typically indicates that one or more Receive Connectors in your Exchange environment use FQDNs that contain characters that aren't supported by DNS standards.
+When you assign certificates to Exchange services, you might encounter error 0xe0434352 during the certificate binding process. This error typically indicates that one or more Receive Connectors in your Exchange environment use FQDNs that contain characters that aren't supported by DNS standards.
 
 ## Symptoms
 
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ You run the `Enable-ExchangeCertificate` cmdlet to assign a certificate to the S
 > The Exchange Certificate operation has failed with an exception on server <*Server Name*>.
 > The error message is: Unknown error (0xe0434352)
 
-:::image type="content" source="media/certificate-assignment-fails-unsupported-characters/unknown-error.png" alt-text="A screenshot showing error message 0xe434352.":::
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 ## Cause
 
 This issue occurs when the FQDN of one or more Receive Connectors contains unsupported characters, such as underscores. The connector creation process allows underscores in the domain name, but these characters violate DNS standards and cause failures during certificate binding.