AD FS Windows Service encountered exceptions during startup

Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServerStartupExceptionMonitor (UnitMonitor)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

The AD FS Windows service encounter errors during startup during an attempt to enable one or more endpoints for this Federation Service.

If the AD FS Windows service is started without exception events, the monitor will change to a Green state and the original critical alert will be resolved automatically.

Causes

This error can occur when the Federation Service has a problem at service startup. For more details about the cause for this failure, view the additional information that is provided in the event. Some possible causes for this event include the following:

Certificates cannot be loaded from the certificate store.
The computer that is running SQL Server or the Windows Internal Database (WID) that is used for AD FS configuration is unavailable
An endpoint cannot start due to lack of permissions

Resolutions

Use the additional information that is provided in the event to determine the correct resolution for this issue. Depending on the specific data that is in the event, some of the following are possible resolutions:

If the issue is a certificate configuration problem, use the Set-ADFSCertificate cmdlet to modify or update the certificate configuration.
If the issue is with SQL Server, follow the troubleshooting steps in "Troubleshooting Event ID 220" section in the AD FS troubleshooting guide.
If the issue is due to lack of endpoint permissions, please use the netsh tool to verify and fix the permissions.

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServer

Parent Monitor

System.Health.AvailabilityState

Category

AvailabilityHealth

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

Error

Alert Priority

Normal

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Microsoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

AD FS Windows Service encountered exceptions during startup

An error occurred during an attempt to enable one or more endpoints for this Federation Service. Subsequent requests against affected endpoints may fail.

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServerStartupExceptionMonitor" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServer" ParentMonitorID="Health!System.Health.AvailabilityState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="true">

  <Category>AvailabilityHealth</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServerStartupExceptionMonitor_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>$Target/Property[Type="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServer"]/ADFSEventLog$</FirstLogName>

    <FirstExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

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

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="UnsignedInteger">102</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

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

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>MatchesMOM2005RegularExpression</Operator>

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

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </FirstExpression>

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

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

    <SecondExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

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

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="UnsignedInteger">100</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

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

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>MatchesMOM2005RegularExpression</Operator>

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

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </SecondExpression>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>