The Security Token Service is not available (SharePoint 2013)
Error: The Security Token Service is not issuing tokens Today I have faced error in Security Token Service. I was consolidating SharePoint farm servers. When I created SQL Server Reporting service application, it showed an error on system settings and managed jobs page. When I checked ULS logs error was An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (application/soap+msbin1) The error logs does not helped me much. Still I was unclear what was happening. Then I enabled verbose logging and scanned GB’s of logs. The error I found was: SharePoint Installation Claims Error: Failed to create instance of cookie value handler type / handler object As the error says that it is a claims problem I first checked the SharePoint Security Token Service but the web service was fine. When I browse the web service, the page is rendered without errors. After tha