Event ID 105 — Windows NT Token-Based Application - Miscellaneous
Applies To: Windows Server 2008
Monitor miscellaneous authentication requests that are made to the Windows token-based agent.
Event Details
Product: | Windows Operating System |
ID: | 105 |
Source: | Microsoft-Windows-ADFS |
Version: | 6.0 |
Symbolic Name: | WSEXT_INITIAL_REDIR_FAILURE |
Message: | The AD FS Web Agent for Windows NT token-based applications encountered a serious error. The Web agent was not able to redirect the unauthenticated client to the Federation Service. User Action If this error persists, enable the AD FS troubleshooting log. |
Resolve
Enable the AD FS troubleshooting log
If this error persists, enable the Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) troubleshooting log.
To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the local Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.
To enable the AD FS troubleshooting log:
Caution: Incorrectly editing the registry might severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data.
- Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
- Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ifssvc\ Parameters
- Right-click Parameters, click New, and then click DWORD Value.
- In the New Value name box, type ADFSEvent, and then press ENTER.
- Double-click the new entry, and then, in Value data, provide a value for one of the following levels (or add values to configure multiple levels) and then click OK:
- Warning: 0x01
- Information: 0x02
- Success: 0x04
- Failure: 0x08
For more information, see Configure event logging for a Windows NT token-based application (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=94741).
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 with the appropriate authorization.
If you cannot access the application successfully, verify that the Windows token-based agent 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 Windows token-based agent is configured with correct values:
- Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
- In the console tree, click YourComputerName**(local computer)**.
- In the console tree, double-click Sites, and then click YourWebSiteName.
- In the center pane, double-click Authentication, highlight AD FS Windows Token-Based Agent, and then in the Actions pane click Edit.
- In the AD FS Windows Token-Based Agent dialog box, confirm that the Enable AD FS Web Agent check box is selected.
- Make sure that the following values are valid, and then click OK.
- Cookie path
- Cookie domain
- Return URL