ADFS Self Signed Certificates and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

ADFS Self-Signed Certificates are used for internal encryption and are separate from your SSL certificates.   You can sometimes experience a situation where these internal certificates auto-rollover.  when this happens it will bring CRM down.

Below is a blog that has a fix for this that seems to work if you follow all the steps to a T:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/arpita/archive/2012/07/17/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-log-in-issue-due-to-ad-fs-certificate-rollover.aspx 

Additionally there is a way to push the date out using Powershell to make the renewal duration more like 5 years instead of every 365 days.

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Another Great Article on Setting Up Claims-Based IFD For CRM 2011

In reply to one of my previous posts, Interactivewebs replied and mentioned his post on this topic. I took a quick look and it looks really complete and like a pretty nice tutorial.

http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/server-tips/microsoft-crm-2011-how-to-configure-ifd-hosted-setup/

Thanks for this.

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How to: Set Up IFD In CRM 2011 Using Claims-Based Authentication

Jim Glass at Microsoft posted this great tutorial on his blog today about how to set up an IFD using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and claims-based authentication.  This has been in response to a number of inquiries in the forums where users have had a hard time getting this configured properly.

Thanks Jim and the IFD team!

Check out the walk through at Jim's Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jim_glass/archive/2011/04/06/introducing-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-claims-based-authentication.aspx

I hope this helps!