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Add a Trusted Root Authority to your SharePoint Farm

Your SharePoint farm requires a new trusted root authority to identify and authenticate the information it receives from the claims service. Create a trusted root authority on your SharePoint 2010 central administration server.

Follow these steps:

Note: This procedure provides one possible example of how to configure this feature using third-party tools. CA Technologies did not develop nor provide these tools. These tools are subject to change at any time by the third party without notice. Use this procedure as a guide for configuring this feature in your specific environment. The actual steps required in your situation could be different from the steps that are shown here.

1. Copy the certificate you created to protect the ClaimsWS service to a directory on your SharePoint central administration server.
2. Open the SharePoint 2010 central administration site.
3. Click Security.
4. Under General Security, click Manage trust.
5. Click New.

   The Create Trusted Relationship dialog appears.

6. Enter a name for the trust relationship.
7. Click the Browse button next to the Root Authority Certificate, and then locate the certificate you copied over in Step 1.
8. Click OK.
9. Repeat Steps 1 through 8 for each Certificate Authority certificate in your certificate chain.

   The trusted root authority is created.