The server could not load the certificate it needs to initiate an SSL connection. It returned the following error: 0x8009030d. Check certificates to make sure they are valid.

This time I came across a certificate error, that was stopping the SQL Server service from starting: The server could not load the certificate it needs to initiate an SSL connection. It returned the following error: 0x8009030d. Check certificates to make sure they are valid. Error: 26014, Severity: 16, State: 1. Unable to load user-specified certificate The server will not accept a connection. You should verify that the certificate is correctly installed. See "Configuring Certificate for Use by...(read more)