Event ID 636 — Trust Policy and Configuration
Applies To: Windows Server 2008
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The Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) trust policy file defines the set of parameters that a Federation Service requires to identify partners, certificates, account stores, claims, and the various properties of these entities that are associated with the Federation Service.
Event Details
| Product: | Windows Operating System |
| ID: | 636 |
| Source: | Microsoft-Windows-ADFS |
| Version: | 6.0 |
| Symbolic Name: | TrustPolicyPathInvalid |
| Message: | The Federation Service encountered an error while loading the trust policy. The trust policy file path is not valid. Path: %1 The Federation Service will be not be able to start, and all requests to the Federation Service will fail until the configuration is corrected. User Action Correct the configuration to specify a fully qualified file path to an existing trust policy file. This configuration can be corrected in the web.config file or by using the AD FS administration console. |
Resolve
Specify a valid file path to an existing trust policy file in the web.config file
Correct the web.config configuration to specify a valid file path to an existing trust policy file. You can correct this configuration in the web.config file or by using the Active Directory Federation Services snap-in.
To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the local Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.
To specify a file path to an existing trust policy file:
- On the federation server, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Federation Services.
- In the console tree, right-click Federation Service, and then click Properties.
- On the General tab, in Trust policy file, type the correct path to the trust policy 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.