Enabling Federation fails

Federation was enabled but not configured on Excha 2013 C8. Wildcard Cert.

Was trying to activate Shared calendars (without setting up Fed.Trust) but did not get it working.

Thought that disabling the Whole Federation function and re-enabling it would help, disabling went OK, but re-enabling fails., tried several times from the EAC. A New cert is created each time I try, have a lot of them now... (These can be safely )deleted?

Where do I go from here?

Errorlog:

Cmdlet failed. Cmdlet New-FederationTrust, parameters -Name "Microsoft Federation Gateway" -Thumbprint "52223049E6EC7545CDC82CCC7C9C0A83AB35351D" -WarningAction "SilentlyContinue".

New-FederationTrust
   -Name "Microsoft Federation Gateway" -Thumbprint "52223049E6EC7545CDC82CCC7C9C0A83AB35351D" -WarningAction "SilentlyContinue"
   somecompany.no/xxxxx/xxxxx/xxxxx/AdmXXXX/XXXXXXXX
   S-1-5-21-4270190976-4228863527-2014660196-1145
   S-1-5-21-4270190976-4228863527-2014660196-1145
   Local-ECP-Unknown
   27828 w3wp#MSExchangeECPAppPool 
   160
   00:01:00.2672855
   View Entire Forest: 'True', Configuration Domain Controller: 'DC-02.company.no', Preferred Global Catalog: 'DC-02.company.no', Preferred Domain Controllers: '{ DC-02.company.no }'
   Microsoft.Exchange.Management.FederationProvisioning.FederationMetadataException: Unable to access the Federation Metadata document from the federation partner. Detailed information: "An exception occurred during a WebClient request.". at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ThrowError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory errorCategory, Object target, String helpUrl) at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.NewFederationTrust.ProvisionSTS() at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.NewFederationTrust.InternalProcessRecord() at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b() at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)
   10
   Ex8DA35D
   False
   0 objects execution has been proxied to remote server.
   0
   ActivityId: d195bf32-1da5-4180-84ab-7d0f609621e1
   ServicePlan:;IsAdmin:True;
   en-US

September 9th, 2015 7:34am

Hi RayHell,

Thank you for your question.

By this issue, we suggest you make sure Exchange could connect to DC without any problems, then restart IIS to check if the issue persist.

If not, check another account who has administrator permission to check if it work. We could also delete Windows profile to check if the issue persist.

We could refer to the following link to create a federation trust:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj657462(v=exchg.150).aspx 

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know.

Best Regard,

Jim
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September 9th, 2015 10:51pm

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