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Certificate Validation Failure

Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServerCertificateValidationFailureRule (Rule)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

An error occurred during an attempt to build the certificate chain for the certificate that is configured in the AD FS configuration database.

Causes

This event occurs whenever the Federation Service updates its service state or tries to refresh its cached certificate configuration data. If the configuration has changed so that one of the configured certificates is invalid when a refresh occurs, this event is logged.

The following are possible causes for this event:

Resolutions

Ensure that the certificate is valid and has not been revoked or expired.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServer
CategoryConfigurationHealth
EnabledTrue
Event_ID381
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityWarning
Alert PriorityNormal
RemotableTrue
Alert Message
Certificate Validation Failure
An error occurred during an attempt to build the certificate chain for the configuration certificate that is identified by thumbprint '{0}'.
Event Log$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServer"]/ADFSEventLog$

Member Modules:

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

Source Code:

<Rule ID="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServerCertificateValidationFailureRule" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServer" ConfirmDelivery="true" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">

  <Category>ConfigurationHealth</Category>

  <DataSources>

    <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.EventProvider">

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

      <LogName>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServer"]/ADFSEventLog$</LogName>

      <Expression>

        <And>

          <Expression>

            <SimpleExpression>

              <ValueExpression>

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

              </ValueExpression>

              <Operator>Equal</Operator>

              <ValueExpression>

                <Value Type="UnsignedInteger">381</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>

      <AlertOwner/>

      <AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServerCertificateValidationFailureRule.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>

      <AlertParameters>

        <AlertParameter1>$Data/Params/Param[1]$</AlertParameter1>

      </AlertParameters>

      <Suppression>

        <SuppressionValue>$Data/Params/Param[1]$</SuppressionValue>

      </Suppression>

      <Custom1/>

      <Custom2/>

      <Custom3/>

      <Custom4/>

      <Custom5/>

      <Custom6/>

      <Custom7/>

      <Custom8/>

      <Custom9/>

      <Custom10/>

    </WriteAction>

  </WriteActions>

</Rule>