Quick answer:
In Windows 7/8/10, we use a third-party Credential Provider, and it was blocking LOCAL (ie. not Domain) accounts from logging on. Removing the third-party CP resolved the issue. (we have logged a fault with the vendor).
Detailed answer follows:
Windows networking
Changing the MTU size in Windows Vista, 7 or 8
Changing MTU in Windows Vista
TCP/IP and NetBT configuration parameters for Windows 2000 or Windows NT
How to Use Traceroute to Identify Network Problems
Acting etc.
The Rehearsal Room
The Real Accent Application
T-Shirt printing
Tee Junction
The Print Bar
Speedy tees
VistaPrint
Other
Melbourne’s Streets & Lanes
Florida Veterinary Behaviour Service
(Has articles on pet behaviour.)
System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms. at System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1Managed..ctor() at ....
When I say “learnt”, it was more about reading documents to determine what happened to cause the above error.
I suspect either of these:
My quick “fix” was to change the application to use a different hashing algorithm.
References:
All of us, at some point during our lifetime, will need a little help and a little compassion from others. All of us, due to the nature of our existence, with our need for food, shelter, clothing and medical care; will find ourselves in need. It is human nature to believe that “it” will never happen to us (“it”, of course, being bad luck). But, rest assured, it can, and it will.
… and why should I care …
Well for those times when you get this error message when trying to download a 1 hour podcast:
My suspicion is that the podcast author is using a high Bit Rate. Luckily you can get this information by adding the “Bit Rate” column into the iTune application Podcast view.
ie.
Which confirmed my suspicion. My favourite podcast uses a 256 kbps Bit Rate (podcast not shown above).
Let’s confirm that by looking at the actual audio files. I did that by doing the following:
| Podcast | Bit Rate (kbps) |
File size | Length | Format | Mono / Stereo? |
| A.D.D. Comedy with Dave Razowsky | 114 | 50.8 MB | 1hr |
m4a |
Stereo |
| Conversations | 64 | 22.3 MB | 0hr 48m 10s |
mp3 |
Mono |
| How ‘Bout This | 128 | 95.7 MB | 1h 44m 9s |
mp3 |
Stereo |
| Impro Podcast – Claudia Hoppe | 160 | 67 MB | 0hr 58min 30s |
mp3 |
Stereo |
| Improv Nerd With Jimmy Carrane | 128 | 52.6 MB | 0hr 57min 11s |
mp3 |
Stereo |
| Mr. Fred’s Amazing Podcast | 256 | 108 MB | 0hr 58min 56s |
mp3 |
Stereo |
| Story Wise Woodend | 64 | 12.4 MB | 0hr 26min 51s |
mp3 |
Stereo |
| The Comedian’s Comedian | 64 | 34.2 MB | 1h 11m 36s |
mp3 |
Stereo |
The reason why the “Mr. Fred’s Amazing Podcast” podcast is over 100 MB, is that the author is using a high Bit Rate. Reducing the Bit rate would mean that I could download it over a cell phone network AND they would save on hosting costs.
References:
The Podcast Host: What Bitrate Should I Use For a Podcast?
Collecting Windows 10 “Anniversary Edition” Keyboard Shortcuts
Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
How to Remove Broken or Dead Tracks from iTunes
This article allowed me to tidy up my music collection.
WA Health – Centre for Clinical Interventions
Has a list of resources to assist with
Statistics from the last year …
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Most popular post of 2016:
$1.36 million dollars is not much …
3 most popular posts ever
How to fix the “Cannot attach the virtual hard disk …”
VicRoads Driving Test Routes
Excel: how do I calculate the date 24 weeks from today?
I thought I’d have to do this for the Surface Pro 4 “Pen” application, but Microsoft has bundled the Pen application into Windows 10 Anniversary Version (Build 1607).
The Windows OS Hub has written a comprehensive guide on how to do this.
Modern Windows 8 apps (APPX Metro apps) are mostly designed to be installed online from Windows Store. Despite Windows allows to install Metro apps from APPX files offline, you can’t download a Metro app distribution from Windows Store. In this article, we’ll show how to download an APPX file of any Modern App using Fiddler and install it on the systems with no access to Windows Store (offline systems or corporate computers).
So, our task is to get an archive with an APPX file of any Windows 8 Metro app to install it manually on an offline system. As it has already been told, you can’t directly download an APPX file from Windows Store. However, during the installation of any app, at a certain moment a client gets a generated link to download its APPX file. Let’s try to trace the link, by which Windows Store downloads an installation file.
Further details here: How to Download APPX Installation File for any Windows Store App
How to enable or disable the CTRL+ALT+DELETE sequence for logging on to Windows XP, to Windows Vista, and to Windows 7
You receive a “The User Profile Service failed the logon” error message
Update to enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 as a default secure protocols in WinHTTP in Windows
SMB file server share access is unsuccessful through DNS CNAME alias
This is not the first Impro book you should read. It’s one of those books you should read after other Impro books. This was my first reading of “Free Play”, and it will be interesting to see what I make of it the second time around.
Some of the quotations which I liked, can be found after the “Continue reading –>”