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Insufficient Privileges To Write To The Audit Log

Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices20.FederationServerInsufficientPrivilegesWritingToAuditLogErrorMonitor (UnitMonitor)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This monitor indicates that the service account that is associated with the AD FS Windows service does not have sufficient privileges to write an audit to the Security log in Event Viewer.

If any AD FS audit has been logged successfully, the monitor will change to a Green state and the original critical alert will be resolved automatically.

Causes

The Federation Service does not have correct permissions to register the event source in the Security log.

Resolutions

Ensure that the Federation Service has the correct permissions to write to the Security log. This includes verifying that the AD FS service account has write permissions to perform auditing. For more information, see "Configure auditing for AD FS." section in the AD FS troubleshooting guide.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices20.FederationServer
Parent MonitorSystem.Health.SecurityState
CategorySecurityHealth
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityError
Alert PriorityNormal
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
Monitor TypeMicrosoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
Insufficient Privileges To Write To The Audit Log
The service account does not have sufficient privileges to write to the Windows Security Audit log.
RunAsDefault

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices20.FederationServerInsufficientPrivilegesWritingToAuditLogErrorMonitor" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices20.FederationServer" ParentMonitorID="Health!System.Health.SecurityState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="true">

  <Category>SecurityHealth</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices20.FederationServerInsufficientPrivilegesWritingToAuditLogErrorMonitor_AlertMessageResourceID">

    <AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>Error</AlertSeverity>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="FirstEventRaised" MonitorTypeStateID="FirstEventRaised" HealthState="Error"/>

    <OperationalState ID="SecondEventRaised" MonitorTypeStateID="SecondEventRaised" HealthState="Success"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <FirstComputerName>$Target/Host/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</FirstComputerName>

    <FirstLogName>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices20.FederationServer"]/ADFSEventLog$</FirstLogName>

    <FirstExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="UnsignedInteger">EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="UnsignedInteger">208</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">PublisherName</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>MatchesMOM2005RegularExpression</Operator>

            <Pattern>(^AD FS$)|(^AD FS 2.0$)</Pattern>

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </FirstExpression>

    <SecondComputerName>$Target/Host/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</SecondComputerName>

    <SecondLogName>Security</SecondLogName>

    <SecondExpression>

      <RegExExpression>

        <ValueExpression>

          <XPathQuery Type="String">PublisherName</XPathQuery>

        </ValueExpression>

        <Operator>MatchesMOM2005RegularExpression</Operator>

        <Pattern>(^AD FS Auditing$)|(^AD FS 2.0 Auditing$)</Pattern>

      </RegExExpression>

    </SecondExpression>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>