Additional Certificate Load Error

Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices.2016.CertificateManagementAdditionalCertificateLoadErrorRule (Rule)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

The Federation Service failed to load its token-signing, token-decrypting, and SSL certificates. If the failing certificate is the primary certificate, the AD FS Windows service will fail to start up.

Causes

The following are possible causes for this event:

Resolutions

The following are possible resolutions for this event:

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices.2016.CertificateManagement
CategoryConfigurationHealth
EnabledTrue
Event_ID329
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityWarning
Alert PriorityNormal
RemotableTrue
Alert Message
Additional Certificate Load Error
The Federation Service Failed to load additional certificates.
Event Log$Target/Host/Property[Type="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices.2016.FederationServer"]/ADFSEventLog$

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
DS DataSource Microsoft.Windows.EventProvider Default
Alert WriteAction System.Health.GenerateAlert Default

Source Code:

<Rule ID="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices.2016.CertificateManagementAdditionalCertificateLoadErrorRule" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices.2016.CertificateManagement" ConfirmDelivery="true" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">
<Category>ConfigurationHealth</Category>
<DataSources>
<DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.EventProvider">
<ComputerName>$Target/Host/Host/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>
<LogName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices.2016.FederationServer"]/ADFSEventLog$</LogName>
<Expression>
<And>
<Expression>
<SimpleExpression>
<ValueExpression>
<XPathQuery Type="UnsignedInteger">EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>
</ValueExpression>
<Operator>Equal</Operator>
<ValueExpression>
<Value Type="UnsignedInteger">329</Value>
</ValueExpression>
</SimpleExpression>
</Expression>
<Expression>
<RegExExpression>
<ValueExpression>
<XPathQuery Type="String">PublisherName</XPathQuery>
</ValueExpression>
<Operator>MatchesMOM2005RegularExpression</Operator>
<Pattern>(^AD FS$)</Pattern>
</RegExExpression>
</Expression>
</And>
</Expression>
</DataSource>
</DataSources>
<WriteActions>
<WriteAction ID="Alert" TypeID="Health!System.Health.GenerateAlert">
<Priority>1</Priority>
<Severity>1</Severity>
<AlertName/>
<AlertDescription/>
<AlertOwner/>
<AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices.2016.CertificateManagementAdditionalCertificateLoadErrorRule.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>
<AlertParameters/>
<Suppression>
<SuppressionValue>$Data/Params/Param[1]$</SuppressionValue>
</Suppression>
<Custom1/>
<Custom2/>
<Custom3/>
<Custom4/>
<Custom5/>
<Custom6/>
<Custom7/>
<Custom8/>
<Custom9/>
<Custom10/>
</WriteAction>
</WriteActions>
</Rule>