From the IIS 8.5 STIG, "The production IIS 8.5 web server must utilize SHA2 encryption for the Machine Key....
Click the IIS 8.5 web server name.
Double-click the "Machine Key" icon in the website Home Pane.
Verify "HMACSHA256" or stronger encryption is selected for the Validation method and "Auto" is selected for the Encryption method.
Before I go clicking that, does 10.7.1 support that level of encryption?
Thomas Colson I just set this on my 10.7.1 instance and don't have problems.
What kind of cert are you using?
What specifically are you looking for?
It's a cert provided by our internal CA, created using SHA256.
Note that the changes you're proposing affect the web server, but don't affect the GIS Server where ArcGIS is a client to the web adaptor host.
So in IIS you have to select the level of encryption when you fill out the CSR, wondering if that is dependent on setting the setting above. I just checked the defaults, and just got my cert signed, so I'll test and report back.
I believe it does. I haven't really worried about it because I'm auto-enrolled in our CA and submit my cert requests directly to our enterprise CA from the certificates MMC, always using the SHA256 template ever since Chrome started requiring a SAN in a cert.