I've installed and configured the Identity Developer Training Kit on a Windows Server 2008 SP1 machine. I've followed the prerequisites configuration wizard and it all went smoothly. However, when trying the first excercise, Claims Enable Web Site,I failed to open theVS solution. The error message the I'm getting is: "Unable to open the Web Site 'https://localhost/ClaimsEnableWebSiteEx01'. There is no server on port 443at 'localhost'..."

Indeed I checked the web sites configured on the machine using IIS Manager and I only see the IIS default web site. I'm not sure which step creates the ClaimsEnableWebSite- isn't it the VS solution itself? butI can't open the solution...

Help...

Vittorio Bertocciwas kind enough to suggest the following solution, which worked like a charm (the SamplesPreReqSetup.bat did the trick):

It appears you don’t have a HTTPS binding on your machine; Visual Studio would create the site as you open the project, but without that binding the operation will fail.

It sounds like your Geneva Framework installation didn’t go well: without a healthy Geneva Framework installation, the kit won’t be of much use.

Try to execute SamplesPreReqSetup.bat as referred by C:\Program Files\Microsoft Geneva Framework\Samples\SamplesReadMe.htm, then try some of the Geneva Framework SDK samples. If they work, I am sure that the problem you report will be solved. If they don’t, I suggest reinstalling geneva framework.

Vittorio Bertocciwas kind enough to suggest the following solution, which worked like a charm (the SamplesPreReqSetup.bat did the trick):

It appears you don’t have a HTTPS binding on your machine; Visual Studio would create the site as you open the project, but without that binding the operation will fail.

It sounds like your Geneva Framework installation didn’t go well: without a healthy Geneva Framework installation, the kit won’t be of much use.

Try to execute SamplesPreReqSetup.bat as referred by C:\Program Files\Microsoft Geneva Framework\Samples\SamplesReadMe.htm, then try some of the Geneva Framework SDK samples. If they work, I am sure that the problem you report will be solved. If they don’t, I suggest reinstalling geneva framework.

Windows Start / Run / "inetmgr" / server certificates

Load STSTest.pfx

Go to "Default Website" / Bindings / Add / https / certificate: STSTest

Restart Server

Open browser: Go to https://localhost