MS13-066 causes ADFS 2.0 problems

August 15, 2013

Microsoft put out a release day before yesterday (8/13/13) to fix a security vulnerability in ADFS 2.0

It caused an outage for SSO with Office365 for a customer of ours (they had the servers set to auto update).

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-066

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2843639

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2843638

At the moment we recommend NOT installing these updates.

We saw the following error repeated for every authentication attempt:

Event ID 111 Federation service encountered an error while processing the ws-trust request.

Exception Details:

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation —> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.XmlSignature.AsymmetricSignatureOperatorsDelegate’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0

It goes on with the stack trace.

Uninstalling these updates has partially restored service: Outlook and Lync now work, but the Outlook Web Access and SharePoint online still aren’t working.

In fact they pulled the patch later in the day yesterday.

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