Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
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You create a federation trust between a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1(SP1) organization and Microsoft Federation Gateway.
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The System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing security setting is enabled on the server that is running Exchange Server 2010 SP1.
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You use the Get-FederatedDomainProof cmdlet to generate a cryptographically secure string for the domain.
In this scenario, the cmdlet fails, and you receive the following error message:
WARNING: An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-FederatedDomainProof], TargetInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigur
ationTasks.GetFederatedDomainProof
Additionally, the following event is logged on the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 server:
Cause
This issue occurs because the cryptographic algorithm that is used to calculate the hash value of a domain name is not a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-certified cryptographic algorithm.
Resolution
To resolve this issue, install the following update rollup:
2661854 Description of Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
More Information
For more information about the System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing security setting is , click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
811833 System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing For more information about how to create a federation trust, visit the following Microsoft website:
General information about how to create a federation trustFor more information about the Get-FederatedDomainProof cmdlet, visit the following Microsoft website:
General information about the Get-FederatedDomainProof cmdletFor more information about FIPS-compliant algorithms, visit the following Microsoft website:
