Windows 10: Future deprecation of virtual smart cards

Hello,On https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/virtual-smart-cards/virtual-smart-card-overview, there is the following note:Windows Hello for Business is the modern, two-factor authentication for Windows 10. Microsoft will be deprecating virtual smart cards in the future, but no date has been set at this time. Customers using Windows 10 and virtual smart cards should move to Windows Hello for Business. Microsoft will publish the date early to ensure customers have adequate lead time to move to Windows Hello for Business. We recommend that new Windows 10 dep

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Disable PIN caching for Virtual Smart Cards

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Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community forum.



Pass-through authentication with smart cards work on domain environments. You may want to go through
Use Virtual Smart Cards to know
more about the same. As this requires expertise in an environment which has a direct two-way trust relationship, I suggest you to post your query in the
TechNet forums.



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Virtual Smart Card lock

Hello.

Our company uses Windows authorization and some other services using a virtual smart card. The problem is that the virtual smart card is blocked after 5 incorrect PIN entries. It is the smart card that is blocked, not the TPM. Tell me, is it possible to
somehow increase the number of incorrect attempts to enter or unlock a smart card after a certain period of time?

I know about unblocking with the PUK and PIN of the administrator.

We have a domain infrastructure, we use Win Server 2019 + Win 10 Pro 2004

 

virtual smart card not found

I have a "virtual digitalbadge" on my PC, which, I think, is an implementation of virtual smart card technology. I use it to set up a VPN to my partner company.

When I try to set up the VPN, I often get the message "select a smart cart device". Screenshot:





The Japanese text means "insert smart card". I can't proceed, since I don't know how to "insert" a virtual smart card.

I believe this happens consistently after hibernation; a reboot fixes the problem but is a very poor workaround, since it takes about 15 minutes until my PC becomes usable. Of course I could avoid hibernation, but I hibernate for a reason (i.e. I want to
have the same programs running when I switch my PC on as when I switch it off).

The same happens whenever Internet Explorer wants to check the certificate on the smart card.

Is there a tool, a command, a registry entry, anything that helps me "inserting" the smart card without rebooting? Is there a log file or anything else to find out where the process is broken so that I can fix it?