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ADAM General Event ID 1168 is logged on an AD LDS server that's running Windows Server 2012 R2

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Symptoms

Assume that the service account that's running the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) instance in Windows Server 2012 R2 is not the built-in Network Service account or any other user account that has local administrator rights. In this situation, the following event may be written to the ADAM log: 

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Cause

This ADAM event is logged because AD LDS has to respond to auditing policy changes and tries to register a notification that uses a call to LSA. The event reports the failure of this subscription call if the service account is not either Network Service or a local admin account. In this situation, the account has no POLICY_NOTIFICATION rights. Despite this failure, AD LDS should work as expected. However, AD LDS requires a service restart to respond to auditing policy changes. 

Note If the event stops appearing as soon as you change the service account to a local admin user account and restart the service, you're probably experiencing the issue that's described in the "Symptoms" section. 

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More Information

Local admin users have POLICY_NOTIFICATION rights. Additionally, LSA explicitly grants NetworkService/LocalService the same rights. Therefore, when LDS runs under a local admin user account or the NetworkService/LocalService account, this issue does not occur.

For more information about the AD LDS Service Account, see Selecting an AD LDS service account.

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Article Info
Article ID : 3080831
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 8/20/2015
Exists online : False
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