Asp.Net Login Control very slow initial connection to Non-Trusted AD Domain

Question

ASP.NET Login control is very slow making the initial connection to AD when authenticating to a different domain than the domain the web server is a member of. Problem occur

Answer 1

I had the same issue. Following this advice seems to have sorted it.

https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/webteam/weblog/15385.html

We had a custom user running as the app pool user, giving the user read access to this directory 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys' Sorts the issue.