Tuesday, September 14, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Installation Error - FIPS cryptographic algorithm

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UPDATE October 13th, 2010- ISSUE RESOLVED- I had to make changes to few more reg keys!
Details are available here

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I was installing SharePoint 2010 Foundation in standalone mode on a Win 2008 server SP2 (NOT R2) and got the following error when I ran the config wizard.

Failed to create the configuration database.

An exception of type System.InvalidOperationException was thrown. Additional exception information: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.

System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.

I checked out few blogs, but was not able to resolve the issue.

These were the blogs/links I referred to:

Amol's blog:

http://sharepointknowledgebase.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-implementation-is-not-part-of.html,

this pointed me to this KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911722. The KB article talks about adding a section to your web.config, but in my case, the central admin site is also still not created so there is no web.config.

I also referred to another link which suggested to disable the FIPS compliance related Local security policy, but in my case it was already disabled.

I will troubleshoot this further and keep updating this post.


Update Oct 11th,2010.

We re-imaged our virtual server, basically got a new server and tried again, same problem again.

I have posted a question in technet

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/81e1b564-c722-4aea-b7a1-788ff35e055d

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UPDATE October 13th, 2010- ISSUE RESOLVED- I had to make changes to few more reg keys!
Details are available here

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