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Can help me on like how this communication is happening between AD &amp;&nbsp;IIS... is it using any service like federation service or any other ? If it is using service.. where it is hosted and executing under which hosting environment &nbsp;?<br />
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It will be great helpful.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Ajit
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Can help me on like how this communication is happening between AD & IIS... is it using any service like federation service or any other ? If it is using service.. where it is hosted and executing under which hosting environment  ?

It will be great helpful.

Thanks,
Ajit

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There is a module &quot;CertificateMappingAuthent<wbr />icationMod<wbr />ule&quot; which is responsible for certificate authentication in IIS and do the certificate validation by communicating with Active Directory directory service. I am searching about how this communication process is happening.
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There is a module "CertificateMappingAuthenticationModule" which is responsible for certificate authentication in IIS and do the certificate validation by communicating with Active Directory directory service. I am searching about how this communication process is happening.

How Certificate Authentication works and validated between IIS and CA or AD ?

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