Windows Identity Foundation not working with Technical Preview.

Hi,

I suggest you to refer to the following Microsoft Help article before installing Windows Identity Foundation. This article consists of more information about installing this in Windows 10 Technical Preview.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-technical-preview-for-enterprise

Please reply if the information provided is not helpful so that we can help you better.

Are you saying I need the Enterprise version of the Tech Preview to get WIF installed?

Installing the Windows 10 Technical Preview for Enterprise does not add Windows Identity Foundation. I have that installed and it is not available.

From Windows 8.1 Features Screen:

WIF 3.5 has been superseded by WIF classes that are provided as part of .NET 4.5. It is recommended that you use .NET 4.5 for supporting claims-based identity in your applications.

so i guess they removed it completely in Windows TP

Found a workaround in this post: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/error-when-installing-windows-identity-foundation/6e4c65a5-ea24-431c-b4f0-b8740e97cf46

There are a few assumptions: 1) that you can get the file out of the GAC on your local machine (map a network drive to \\<your machine name>\c$\windows\assembly). That will give you an explorer view with the actual files, and 2) that you know how to install a file to the GAC using gacutil (included with Visual Studio)

To do it: copy a 3.5 version of Microsoft.IdentityModel.dll from a machine with it installed to your Windows 10 Tech Preview machine and use gacutil (if you have it installed, comes with Visual Studio) and run:

gacutil /i c:\<path to Microsoft.IdentityModel.dll>

Worked for me and my connection to MS CRM. Didn't even need any other dependent DLLs. Definitely a workaround, but it got me past my issue.

HTH.

Tried that - does not work for Installation of Dynamics AX :(

Any other ideas?

I am having the same issue, running AX 2012 R2 CU7 and cannot install the client because WIF is not available as an installable feature for Windows 10 ETP.

In fairness, there is no way you'd receive any support from Microsoft for running Dynamics on evaluation software!

I guess there must be some rationale behind the decision, or perhaps an architectural problem supporting WIF in the next generation of Windows.

I would say we're just going to have to wait 12 months until the Dynamics AX product cycle upgrades and it moves off its current dependencies.  

Until then, Windows 7/8/8.1 will have to remain the default OS for AX client users.

Hi,

First of all, I would like to apologize for the delay in responding.

The issue that you are facing is better suited in Microsoft TechNet forum, we have a dedicated team to help you with this type of issues. They have advanced tools to work with this type of issues. I suggest you to post the same question in Microsoft TechNet forum for further assistance with this issue.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=WinPreview2014General