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Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:50 PM

Smart Card Infrastructure Whitepaper Published

The Smart Card Infrastructure White paper has been published on the download center - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac201438-3317-44d3-9638-07625fe397b9&displaylang=en . This paper has detailed information on Windows Smart
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:33 PM

Smart Card MiniDrivers and Reader Drivers

Summary list of information related to Smart Card Readers and Card Mini-Drivers Smart Card Mini-Driver Specification: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/sc-minidriver.mspx Certification Requirements: http://blogs.msdn.com/shivaram/archive/2007/02/26/card-mini-driver-certification-requirements.aspx
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:25 PM

Smart Card Credential Providers

Vista ships with "Password" and "Smart Card" Credential Providers. Some vendors are interested in writing custom credential providers. Check out http://shellrevealed.com/ for latest and up-to-date information on how to write Credential Providers. Credential
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:19 PM

PC/SC Standards support and Windows Logo for Smart Card Readers and Drivers

Windows (upto and including Vista) supports only PC/SC v1.0 . As a part of Windows Vista, there is a standard USB-CCID class driver in-box. This means that any USB Smart Card reader which is USB-CCID compliant, will not need any additional drivers - they
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Monday, February 26, 2007 12:28 PM

Turning on S/MIME (Digital Signature/Encryption) in Outlook 2007

Digital Signature and Encryption can use Smart Card based Certificates in Outlook. In Office 2007, Select “Tools” à “Trust Center” à “Email Security” See the attached image for configuration. If you have had an email change from user@exchange.example.com
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Monday, February 26, 2007 12:17 PM

Smart Card Logon on Windows Vista

Differences in Vista Smart card logon under Windows Vista has changed in several key aspects. The primary differences are highlighted below: · Logon is no longer triggered to smart card insertion. Users are required to press Cntrl+Alt+Del (CAD) to start
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Monday, February 26, 2007 9:43 AM

Smart Card Tools and debugging

CertUtil is a tool available on Windows Vista and Windows 2003 Server Admin Pack CertUtil (tool available on Vista and W2K3 Admin pack) Listing Certificates available on the card: Command to list Certificates available on the Smart Card: certutil –scinfo
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Monday, February 26, 2007 9:38 AM

Smart Card Resource Manager Service

The Smart Card Resource Manager (SCRM) provides the basic infrastructure that all other smart card components. It manages smart card readers on the system and application interactions. It is fully PC/SC 1.0 compliant. The smart card resource manager is
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Monday, February 26, 2007 9:32 AM

Smart Card related Group Policy Settings in Vista

The following table illustrates the Group Policy Settings that can be used on a per-machine basis. There are no settings on a per user basis. Some of these settings can be applied only to a Vista level functional domain – for example Domain Hints. All
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Monday, February 26, 2007 9:25 AM

Card Mini-Driver Certification Requirements and Certification Kit

Card Mini-Driver detailed certification requirements are now available at: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/sc-minidriver_certreqs.mspx Card Module Certification Kit ( CMCK) has shipped with the Windows Logo Kit (WLK) . WLK is the
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:49 AM

Smart Cards and Readers that work with Windows

What Smart Cards and Readers work with Windows? For Smart Cards, Check out Certificate Life Cycle Manager (CLM) Product website which has a partner listing - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/clm/default.mspx . This is just a starting list of companies
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:38 AM

Smart Card MiniDriver (aka CardModule) header (cardmod.h) download

CardMod.h required to build a Smart Card Mini Driver is available for download as a part of the Crypto Next Generation (CNG) SDK download . This is a small package that gets installed on top of the Windows Vista SDK .
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:03 PM

Card Module is also called Smart Card Mini Driver

Card Module which has been talked about is also called Smart Card Mini Driver. The specification for the same is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/sc-minidriver.mspx If you have comments about the specification,
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:41 PM

Enterprise Smart Card Deployment in the Microsoft® Windows® Smart Card Framework

Here is a link to the white paper titled "Enterprise Smart Card Deployment in the Microsoft® Windows® Smart Card Framework" - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fa7ec97c-11be-4e53-a0c4-04719b6a7ab6&DisplayLang=en This document
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:38 PM

HSPD-12 / FIPS 201 Bridging Policies, Process and Technology

Here is a link to a good presentation on this subject: https://ms.impactbusiness.com/pescio/presentations/USPS_CIO_Summit_HSPD-12_FIPS_201_Bridging_Policies_Process_and_Technology.ppt
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