Just want to put a remark that the April 2011 version of the Identity Developer training kit for Visual Studio 2010 is already out of date. This can give problems with the labs. For example, I had the following problem reported during EXERCISE 2: ACCEPTING TOKENS FROM AN ACTIVE DIRECTORY FEDERATION SERVICES (ADFS) STS:
"The server certificate with name 'CN=ip-sts-01.federatedidentity.net' failed identity verification because its thumbprint ('DE74CFE7D20E8DC2B6E6E700E4D2A940CB08B268') does not match the one specified in the endpoint identity ('50191FA07A8F79D4220E551DF4B97F31519D012D'). As a result, the current HTTPS request has failed. Please update the endpoint identity used on the client or the certificate used by the server."
The exercise related to Web Services and Identity for Visual Studio 2010 Developers (last updated 8/25/2011, which is weird then to be outdated), asks the trainee to insert the following lines in the app.config of the WeatherStationClient:
<issuer address="https://ip-sts-01.federatedidentity.net/adfs/services/trust/13/usernamemixed"
bindingConfiguration=
"https://ip-sts-01.federatedidentity.net/adfs/services/trust/13/usernamemixed"
binding="ws2007HttpBinding">
<identity>
<certificate encodedValue="
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" />
</identity>
</issuer>
The problem is that the certificate that is contained in this encoded value has expired since 2/19/2011. They did put up a new certificate on the server but forgot to update the exercise description.
To get this to work, instead of the suggested snippet above, use:
<issuer address="https://ip-sts-01.federatedidentity.net/adfs/services/trust/13/usernamemixed"
bindingConfiguration="
https://ip-sts-01.federatedidentity.net/adfs/services/trust/13/usernamemixed"
binding="ws2007HttpBinding">
<identity>
<certificate
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</identity>
</issuer>
This refers to the new server certificate hosted at ip-sts-01.federatedidentity.net. And that did the trick for me!
Hope it helps some of you getting through the labs,
Marco