How to renew ios distribution certificate - ios

I got a mail from apple that regarding ios distribution certificate.I tried to revoke but there is no revoke button in distribution certificate
delete,edit,download options are there what should i do should i wait till certificate expires
This certificate will no longer be valid in 30 days. To create a new certificate, visit Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles in your account.
Certificate: iOS Distribution

The certificate expires automatically from 365 days of creating. You can see when you create new one. Its best to create new one once it is expired.
For revoking go to production and click on certificate and dropdown option will come to revoke. Apple Developer Center->Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles->Production->Certificate(i.e for revoke)

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How to renew Distribution Certificate in iOS?

I have multiple applications in my Appstore, now my distribution certificate is going to expire within 3 days. How can I renew the same? Do I need to create new certificate or do we have any option to renew the same?
If the distribution certificate get expired that's not going to affect your already publish apps on the App Store.
And possible you can not renew the certificate all you need to do is revoke the certificate and then create a new one. And all the App Store submission will be done using this new certificate.

Does my app stop if I renew my provisioning profile on a new certificate (Enterprise Distribution Method)?

I have an application that was released by an enterprise distribution method. The distribute certificate will expire in one month so I created a new one.
In addition, I renewed the provisioning profile based on a new certificate with the same bundle ID and app ID.
The old provisioning profile will expire in one month as like as the old certificate. My app was signed and installed by this provisioning profile and certificate.
So the question is will my existing application that is being used by
our users right now stop working when I renewed the certificate and
provisioning profile?
As long as you don't revoke the old certificate you will be fine.
With the enterprise program you can have two valid signing certificates at any point; This allows you to issue a second one before the first expires.

Apple Certificates Renewal

I have an iOS MDM application which contains a set of restrictions to be imposed on the device. While a user enrolls a device , a provisioning profile along with a certificate is pushed on the device. Now the certificate is showing to be expired shortly. What could be the impact of not renewing the certificate. And how Can I renew the certificate.
Any suggestions will be really helpful.
When the certificate expires, your app will stop working. You can renew it by logging into your Apple developer account at https://developer.apple.com and navigating to the Certificates page - you should see your certificate there with the expiration date next to it. There is no option to renew it, but you can revoke the old one and issue a new one.
Once you have the new certificate you'll also need to rebuild the provisioning profile to link it with the new certificate, and then load the new profile onto the device.

Distribution Certificate is Expired

Today, I realized that My Distribution Certificate has expired and cannot see any certificate under distribution anymore.
Also AppStore provisioning profile is expired but still there. When I want to edit it, of course i need to create a new distribution certificate.
So the question is, will I be able to update my existing App with new certificate?
Thanks
when your certificates is expired making following scenario:
1.When your certificate expires, it simply disappears from the Certificates, Identifier & Profiles section of Member Center. There is no Renew button that allows you to renew your certificate.You can revoke a certificate and generate a new one before it expires. Or you can wait for it to expire and disappear, then generate a new certificate.
2.When your development or distribution certificate expires, remove it and request a new certificate in Xcode.
3.When your certificate expires or is revoked, any provisioning profile that made use of the expired/revoked certificate will be reflected as ‘Invalid’. You cannot build and sign any app using these invalid provisioning profiles. As you can imagine, I'd rather revoke and regenerate a certificate before it expires.
4.Apps that are already on the App Store continue to function fine. Again, in
Important: Re-creating your development or distribution certificates doesn’t affect apps that you’ve submitted to the store nor does it affect your ability to update them.

How to Renew a Revoked Certificate?

I have just finished my first app and I want to submit it to the iTunes store. In getting ready I read a tutorial that said I should first clean up all certificates and provisioning profiles. So, as per this guys instructions, I revoked my certificate.
Now, I am having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get it back. I've found an apparently out of date articles by Apple (TN2250) which no longer applies to my version of Xcode (4.3.2). In the Certificates section of the Provisioning Portal I can see no way to renew my certificate, or create a new one. I even called Apple's support and the nice gal was sweet but in the end was not able to help me and told me she was not technical support and I would need to ask my questions in the various help-forums.
How to renew my cert? Or create a new one?
There two certificates: one is for the development cert and another one is the distribution certificate.
If they are expired or you revoked them. You need to using key chain from your apple computer to generate the certificate requests.
Go to your apple computer, Open Application->utilities->keychain Access
Keychain Access->certificate Assantance->Request a certificate from a certificate authority
Fill in your email address and name, pick Save to disk
You need to generate two certificate for both the development certificate and the distribution certificate
Then:
You login to your provisioning portal.
Click the certificate manual on your left side
There two certificates: one is for the development cert and another one is the distribution certificate.
You request a new certificate from the portal, upload your certificate request you generated earlier.
You should be able to get your new certificates. You download these two certificates on to your computer, and double click the certificates to install them into your keychain.
Please let me know if you have problems to get your new certificate.

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