Best practice or successful deployments of certificates with Biztalk 2013

Hi,
I am the security resource for our org, not a BizTalk resource.
As an organisation we are deploying BizTalk to work with a number of solutions.  For integrity and confidentiality we would like to use certificates for the BizTalk data flows.  Whilst I've found lots of articles on the BizTalk integration of the
certificates, I'm struggling to find best practice/successful deployment documents on Biztalk+Certificates.
Our BizTalk consultant is requesting that the S/MIME certificates have a group FQDN as the common name; normally an S/MIME certificate has an individual’s email address.  The engineers have attempted to do this using Microsoft's AD services internally
by creating a new template, but as yet have not been successful.
Any assistance or advice would be gratefully received.
Thanks

To the best of my knowledge, BizTalk does not impose any restrictions on certificate types.
BizTalk uses certificates demanded by the Interface or provider. For e.g.: if consuming a web service over SSL, BizTalk only requires that the certificate be trusted either through a valid trust chain or explicitly. Similarly when required to present a certificate
as part of a interface for purposes of client authentication, the certificate has to be available in the certificate store of the account associated with the BizTalk Host Instance. When exposing services, BizTalk does not care if the certificate used for SSL
is self-signed or SAN based hosted on the NLB or external server, etc.
The reason for asking for a SAN S/MIME certificate for use within BizTalk may be driven from the need to restrict the number of certificates required while accessing multiple e-mail accounts through the BizTalk POP adapter. Since the certificate configuration
is at a port level, each port could technically have different user specific certificates all of which may be hosted under same certificate store. The problem arises if the Microsoft CA is configured in an Active Directory integrated mode where it will not
permit multiple certificates to be issued against ONE Account. If however the CA is deployed in a Standalone mode then multiple user certificates can be issued without any connection to the underlying AD accounts and each can have a different e-mail address
associated with it.
Regards.

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