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Asked: 2026-06-03T11:06:09+00:00

We are using Azure ACS together with WIF on a Win2003 R2 server, running

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We are using Azure ACS together with WIF on a Win2003 R2 server, running Asp.Net 3.5 and receive the following exception once Azure ACS redirects back to our site:

Exception information: 
    Exception type: CryptographicException
    Exception message: The system cannot find the file specified.

at System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.Protect(Byte[] userData, Byte[] optionalEntropy, DataProtectionScope scope) 
   at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.ProtectedDataCookieTransform.Encode(Byte[] value)

From research it seems the AppPool Identity we are running the website under in IIS 6, might not have access to the relevant cryptographic keys, however we have not found a workaround.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The resolution turned out to be as per another post, we had to create a simple Windows Service which runs under the same account as our App Pool on Windows 2003 R2.

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