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FIM CM : Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.

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May 14, 2012

This last weekend we migrated from CLM to FIM CM 2010. There were a few challenges along the way, but all-in-all, the process went well. One issue that had us stuck for a while was issuing certificates via the Web UI. The page would just crash and the standard ASP.NET…
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.NET, AD CS, PKI

Performing RSA (Asymmetric) Data Encryption and Decryption in C# (Part 2)

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May 10, 2012

In Part 1 of this series we covered an overview of Data Encryption using Symmetric and Asymmetric algorithms and how, when combined, perform a very secure and efficient method for Data Encryption. This article follows on to demonstrate the practical implementation of the concept using a simple C# .NET Console…
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Performing RSA (Asymmetric) Data Encryption and Decryption in C# (Part 1)

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May 9, 2012

When selecting a Data Encryption method for your Application, there are a couple of different options available. This articles discusses the method for encrypting data using Asymmetric Encryption/Decryption using Digital Certificates issued from a Microsoft PKI Certificate Authority. Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption for Dummies Let’s start with a short…
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An OpenSSL CA on Windows

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February 29, 2012

This article shows how to create an OpenSSL CA on a Windows 7 machine (using the OpenSSL Windows binaries) and request SSL, Code-Signing and Multi-purpose Certificates from the CA for use within a test / development environment. Background Having the functionality to issue certificates quickly and without the need…
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.NET, ADFS

Creating a Test Relying Party and Test ClaimsApp in ADFS

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February 22, 2012

This article contains a a quick walk through of creating a Claims aware application and registering this as a Relying Party in ADFS 2.0. The ClaimsApp application used within this scenario is the default site created in Visual Studio when selecting File –> New –> Web Site –> ‘Claims-aware ASP.NET…
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AD CS, PKI

Issuance Policies with a CA Upgrade to Windows 2008 R2 AD CS PKI

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February 14, 2012

After upgrading an Issuing CA from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2 AD CS there might be a few certificate enrollment problems related to Certificate Templates where Issuance Policies are configured. The errors reported on the clients / CA’s for any certificate requests were: AutoEnrolled Certs fail with Error Constructing…
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Active Directory, Kerberos, Security

Filtering Platform Connection Events : Give me peace

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February 10, 2012

Recently I was busy troubleshooting some Kerberos authentication issues in my test environment. The Security Log on the test DC was totally cluttered with event id’s ‘5152, 5157, 5159 …’ and and event source of ‘Filtering Platform Connection’. The events were presumably coming from the Windows Firewall so went ahead…
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