SharePoint 2010

Microsoft overhauled the Profile Service in SP2010. To get them to work, in the public beta, is tricky, but now there is a useful guide:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/path-to-user-profile-synchronization-success-in-sharepoint-2010-beta.aspx

If you had problems installing SP2010 onto Win2k8R2, head over to Connect to download this hotfix.

It should fix the "allowInsecureTransport" error you were having.

via Jie Li's blog