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Event ID 673 — Claims-Aware Application Membership/Role Provider

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

Web Agent for Claims-Aware Applications Membership/Role Providers log the creation and management of users accounts, group accounts, and the various roles that are associated with the claims-aware agent.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 673
Source: Microsoft-Windows-ADFS
Version: 6.0
Symbolic Name: RoleProviderFsUrlNotInitializedException
Message: The AD FS role provider was not able to be initialized. The Federation Service Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is not configured.

The AD FS membership provider will not function until this condition is resolved.

User Action
Configure the Federation Service URL in the Web.config file.

Resolve

Configure the Federation Service URL in the web.config file

Configure the Federation Service Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the web.config file of the Web application.

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the local Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

To configure the Federation Service URL in the web.config file:

  1. In Notepad or another text editor, open the web.config file that is in the Web application directory (typically, in \Inetpub\wwwroot\ApplicationName) on the Web server.
  2. Search for fs.
  3. Configure the domain name portion of the URL.
  4. Save and close the web.config file.

Verify

Verify that you can access the Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)-enabled application from a client browser and that the resource can be accessed.

If a failure occurs, verify that the web.config file is configured with correct URL values and that all configuration parameters contain valid values.

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the local Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

To verify that the web.config file is configured with a Federation Service URL value:

  1. On a resource federation server, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Federation Services.
  2. Double-click Federation Service, double-click Trust Policy, double-click My Organization, click Applications, right-click the application in the list that represents this claims-aware application, and then click Properties.
  3. Verify that the value specified between the fs tags within the web.config file is valid.

Claims-Aware Application Membership/Role Provider

Active Directory Federation Services