From the course: Configure and Manage SharePoint On-Premises
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Secure Store encryption keys
From the course: Configure and Manage SharePoint On-Premises
Secure Store encryption keys
- [Instructor] Before using the Secure Store service, you have to first generate an encryption key. Now this key is used to encrypt and decrypt the credentials that are then going to be stored in the Secure Store service database. So let's take a look at how to generate this key. So here in Central Administration, I'm going to go to manage service applications, and here I have my Demo Secure Store. I'm going to go ahead and click on that, and you'll see here that it flat out says, it says, "Before creating a Secure Store Target Application, "you must first generate a new key for the Secure Store Service Application from the ribbon." Okay, so let's go up to the ribbon. You'll notice everything's grayed out. We have one option, generate key. So I'll click on that. Now all I have to do is go ahead and put in a pass phrase. Says phrase, but basically this is a password. Basically it has to be at least eight characters and have…
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