Sitecore - System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException

Question

Hi and thank you for your help. We\'re trying to keep a Sitecore site up and running on a WS 2008 R2 Standard server but keep running into the following exception:

Answer 1

Setting up the application pool to 4.0 framework fixed the issue.

Answer 2

This might help: Running Sitecore 6 on Windows 7′S IIS.

It basically says to add this in your global.asax:

public void Application_Start() {
  System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider.UseMachineKeyStore = true;
  System.Security.Cryptography.DSACryptoServiceProvider.UseMachineKeyStore = true;
}