Diagnose Microsoft ADFS Errors
If an error is displayed by Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) during SAML authentication, more information about the error is available in the Windows Event Viewer on the ADFS server.
Note: This topic applies to versions of ADFS that are currently supported by Microsoft.
To open the Event Viewer on the ADFS server:
- Open the Event Viewer by navigating to .
- In the console tree, expand Admin. , and select
To enable a debug trace viewer for more detailed information:
- On the menu bar, select .
- In the console tree, expand Debug. , and then select
- In the Actions pane, select Enable Log. Tracing for ADFS x.x is now enabled.
- Restart the ADFS x.x Windows Service.