Event ID 627 — Trust Policy and Configuration

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

The Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) trust policy file defines the set of parameters that a Federation Service requires to identify partners, certificates, account stores, claims, and the various properties of these entities that are associated with the Federation Service.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 627
Source: Microsoft-Windows-ADFS
Version: 6.0
Symbolic Name: GroupGenerationNoSids
Message: The Federation Service encountered an error while loading the trust policy. The trust policy defines an Active Directory Domain Services group population that does not specify any Active Directory Domain Services principals.
Organization Group Claim: %1

If this error occurs during startup of the Federation Service, the Federation Service will be not be able to start, and all requests to the Federation Service will fail until the configuration is corrected. If this error occurs while the Federation Service is running, the Federation Service will continue to use the last trust policy that was loaded successfully.

User Action
This error should occur only if the trust policy file has been modified without use of the AD FS administrative tools. The ADGroupGeneration object must specify one or more security IDs (SIDs) that specify Active Directory Domain Services users or groups to be included in the organization group.

Resolve

Specify SIDs for Active Directory users or groups

This error occurs only if the trust policy file has been modified without the use of the Active Directory Federation Services snap-in.

The ADGroupGeneration object must specify one or more security IDs (SIDs) for Active Directory users or groups to be included in the organization group.

For more information about ADGroupGeneration, see ADGroupGeneration Members (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64730).

Verify

Verify that you can access the Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)-enabled application from a client browser and that the resource can be accessed.

Trust Policy and Configuration

Active Directory Federation Services