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Andreas Stenhall, MVP Windows Expert ITPRO
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Smart card problems with Dell Latitude and Vista
Posted on October 9th, 2007 2 commentsI only have my domain administrator account on a smart card to improve security in my domain, but this is not working as one can expect in Vista. Sometimes, especially when I wake the computer from sleep but also at other times, the credential tile for smart card authentication vanishes as the Smart card service stop working somehow. The only solution to this issue is to reboot the computer unfortunately. After becoming sick and tired of the problem I called Dell from which I got a beta driver. This driver seems to be somewhat more stable but not 100 percent stable. SP1 makes no difference either.
2 responses to “Smart card problems with Dell Latitude and Vista”
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I can recommend to use the .NET smart card from Gemalto which are natively supported in Microsoft Vista. On my DELL Latitude D630 it works with without any problems.
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Andreas Stenhall October 11th, 2007 at 18:19
Yep, I use the Gemalto .Net card and most of the time it’s working very well but occasionally the whole credential tile for smart card authentication vanishes into thin air!
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