Applies ToWindows Server 2012 Standard Windows Server 2012 Standard Windows Server 2012 Essentials Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Windows Server 2012 Foundation Windows Server 2012 Foundation

Introduction

This article describes an update that enables you to use one certificate for multiple Relying Party Trusts in a Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.1 farm.Before this update is installed, a certificate can be applied to only one Relying Party Trust in each AD FS 2.1 farm.

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To have us fix this problem for you, go to the "Here's an easy fix" section.

Here's an easy fix

To fix this problem automatically, click the Download button. In the File Download dialog box, click Run or Open, and then follow the steps in the easy fix wizard.

  • This wizard may be in English only. However, the automatic fix also works for other language versions of Windows.

  • If you’re not on the computer that has the problem, save the easy fix solution to a flash drive or a CD, and then run it on the computer that has the problem.

If you are using Windows Internal Database (WID) as the AD FS 2.1 configuration database, you must run the Fix it package first on the secondary federation servers in the farm, and then on the primary federation server.If you are using a SQL server as the AD FS 2.1 configuration database, run the Fix it package from any node on the farm.

References

For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

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