ADFS 4.0 IDPinitiatedSignOn Page Error: HTTP 400 – Bad Request (Request header too long)

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  • We are facing an issue with our WHFB enrollment process.
  • The ADFS server Windows Intergrated login process is throwing error:
    HTTP 400 – Bad Request (Request header too long).
  • The issue is limited to one user at this point of time
  • ADFS IDPinitiatedSignon page working on IE but not on Edge/Google Chrome with the above error when attempting kerberos authentication
  • The user is part of 56 groups.
  • SAM account name is of 20 characters (Migrated from a separate forest)

Best Answer

Then IE is probably falling back to NTLM, which is bad in itself.

The solution for IIS can be found on: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2020943/http-400-bad-request-request-header-too-long-response-to-http-request