How to Resolve a FIPS Error

How to Resolve a FIPS Error

FIPS Error 

What is FIPS?

• Enabling FIPS mode makes Windows, and its subsystems use only FIPS-validated cryptographic algorithms.
• .NET uses the AES algorithm, which is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms, Servers that are set to enforce the FIPS algorithm can prevent services from starting and communication to fail with this error being reported

How to resolve the issue?

The issue can be resolved with the following steps:

1. On each server in the environment, open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to Changed this registry key to 0: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\fipsalgorithmpolicy\Enabled.
3. Change the value of the key from 1 to 0.
4. Reboot the server.
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