Hi IT 2627,
This forum discusses and asks questions related to the current versions of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, since your issue is more related to SQL Server certificate, I would suggest that you could post your issue on the following forum for suitable support.
https://borntolearn.mslearn.net/f
Best regards,
Cole
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