how to add certificate and keys and service identities in windows azure?

Question

I am developing one asp.net website and I will be hosting the site on windows azure. My requirement is when user access the site like www.xyz.com\admin then live id authentication should happen but when the user access the site www.xyz.com then no need do authentication.

After referring to an MSDN document I come to know about ACS with WIF, so I created the namespace and did so on so on.

But whenever I am accessing the federation URL (https://xyz.accesscontrol.windows.net/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml) I am getting error:

ID:1089 unable to connect the remote server.

I unfortunately deleted the certificate and keys and service identities in windows azure I don't know how to get it back, also I don't how do fulfill my requirement.

Answer 1

If you deleted the certificates and keys they all you need is to just create new one(s). You can either use Self Signed certificates, or use X.509 certificates issued by a trusted Certificate Authority. Once you get your X.509 certificate (it shall include a private key) you can upload it in the ACS management portal (which is locate at https://xyz.accesscontrol.windows.net/):

The FederationMedatadata.xml cannot be generated without the Token Signing certificate.

Or, the easiest for you, would be to just delete that namespace and create a new one.