Hi,
I receive the general "Error" page when logging in to my website:
I then went into the AD FS 2.0 Event Logs to seek out the actual error, and see errors with Event ID 364 logged 9 times. All of the errors are NullReferenceExceptions:
Encountered error during federation passive request. Additional Data Exception details: System.NullReferenceException at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.Management.ManagementObject.Initialize(Boolean getObject) at System.Management.ManagementBaseObject.get_Properties() at System.Management.ManagementBaseObject.GetPropertyValue(String propertyName) at System.Management.ManagementBaseObject.get_Item(String propertyName) at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.PassiveWmiUtility.SettingsObject.get_Item(String propertyName) at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.PassiveWmiUtility.IsProxy() at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.PassivePolicyManager..ctor() at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.FederationPassiveAuthentication.GetIssuerFriendlyName()
The stack traces only slightly differ; only the last entry differs in its call to GetPassiveEndpointAbsolutePath() instead.
In following the advice of this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/adfs2-troubleshooting-fedpassive-request-failures%28WS.10%29.aspx I concluded that all I could do was to check for other events at the same time, since there are no other details provided with the NullReferenceException events.
I then checked the standard Windows Application log, and see this error logged 13 times:
The description for Event ID 28005 from source MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer. If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event. The following information was included with the event: 15404 19 Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user 'DOMAIN\User', error code 0x5. The specified resource type cannot be found in the image file
Note that I substituted out DOMAIN\User above for those corresponding to my environment.
I tried searching for this particular error but didn't really turn up anything useful.
Anyone have any ideas / advice on how to troubleshoot this further?