I setup a test Server 2008 box with Active Directory and ADFS 2.0. I have an ASP.NET app which uses WIF to federate identity. ADFS is configured to use Active Directory for identity info. I used WIF to configure the client app to use the ADFS endpoint.
When I attempt to load the ASP.NET app as a user from the browser I am redirected to the ADFS endpoint and am prompted for credentials. I have attempted to login with several users accounts, even resetting passwords but the credentials never seem to be correct and a 401 Unauthorized is returned. I can login to other systems successfully with the same credentials.
I have enabled debug trace in verbose mode and enabled auditing in verbose mode but I can’t find any errors or info to help me figure out the issue.
How can I get more info to narrow down the problem?
UPDATE:
I found that this issue is caused by my testing environment. My dev machine is on our corporate domain (acme.com). I created two 2008R2 VMs for a test Domain Controller (notacme.com) and Web Server.
If I attempt to access the website from a computer on the acme.com domain the error described above occurs. If I attempt to access the website from a computer on the notacme.com domain it works.
What can I do to access the website from a computer on the acme.com domain?
Apparently this was caused by the Extended Protection feature built into ADFS. In trying to troubleshoot this issue I had Fiddler running to track the requests/responses but at one point I swear I turned it off to test as well but it still didn’t work. Apparently I didn’t fully remove the Fiddler proxy because after a IE reboot and with Fiddler not running it worked in IE but found it still didn’t work in Firefox or Chrome. This led me to a TechNet article which described the behavior I’ve been seeing in conjuction with using Fiddler.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/ad-fs-2-0-continuously-prompted-for-credentials-while-using-fiddler-web-debugger.aspx