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Configuring ADFS Servers for Auditing User Logon Events

Below is the information needed for auditing success and failure logon events in an ADFS Server Farm Check out our Identity Cloud Solutionsservi...

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Published on Mar 5, 2013
Configuring ADFS Servers for Auditing User Logon Events

Below is the information needed for auditing success and failure logon events in an ADFS Server Farm (Check out our Identity Cloud Solutions for additional consulting help)

Configure ADFS Event Logging

You can configure event logging on federation servers, federation server proxies, and Web servers. ADFS events are logged in the Application event log and the Security event log.

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Configure ADFS Event Logging - 3Important

You must turn on audit object access at each of the federation servers, for ADFS-related audits to appear in the Security log. This will allow the Federation Service to log either success or failure errors. For more information about how to turn on audit object access, see Audit object access (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62686).

Default Events for Claims-aware Applications on a Web Server

You will notice the following event if the ADFS Web server is able to retrieve ADFS trust information successfully from the Federation Service.

Event Type

Event Source

Event Category

Event ID:621

Date:11/10/2005

Time:4:09:26 PM

User

/A

Computer

Description:

The ADFS Web Agent for claims-aware applications successfully retrieved trust information from the Federation Service.

GUID: d977fee6-175b-4532-bc24-5ac54d137d57

Version: 17

Federation Service Uniform Resource Locator (URL): https://adfsresource.treyresearch.net/adfs/fs/federationserverservice.asmx

Federation Service Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): urn:federation

Federation Service Endpoint URL: https://adfsresource.treyresearch.net/adfs/ls/

Federation Service Domain Account: TREYRESEARCH0ADFSRESOURCE$

You will also see the following event below in the Security log.

Event Type

Audit

Event Source

ASP.NET Module Auditor

Event Category

Access

Event ID:560

Date:11/10/2005

Time:4:10:11 PM

User

AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE

Computer

Description:

The client presented a valid inbound token as evidence.

Token ID: _ad5a3694-860d-4063-95a3-3b0163fad3ca

Identity: [email protected]

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