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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

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By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for Information Technology professionals looking to improve their knowledge about MS Windows Active Directory Domain Service. The book will help you to use identity elements effectively and manage your organization’s infrastructure in a secure and efficient way. This third edition has been fully updated to reflect the importance of cloud-based strong authentication and other tactics to protect identity infrastructure from emerging security threats. Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition provides extensive coverage of AD Domain Services and helps you explore their capabilities as you update to Windows Server 2022. This book will also teach you how to extend on-premises identity presence to cloud via Azure AD hybrid setup. By the end of this Microsoft Active Directory book, you’ll feel confident in your ability to design, plan, deploy, protect, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

AD FS components

Before we install the AD FS role, there are a few related components that we need to be aware of. Before Windows Server 2012 R2, there were four AD FS role services: the federation service, the federation service proxy, the claim-aware agent, and the Windows token-based agent (which supported AD FS 1.x interoperability). These are no longer available as role services, and when we go to install AD FS, it will only have the federation service role.

Federation service

This is the main role service for AD FS, and it can work at the IdP end as well as the SP end. In order to install the AD FS role service, the system needs to be a member server of an Active Directory domain. Depending on the workload, multiple federation servers can be installed under the same domain, and this is called an AD FS farm. The federation server is responsible for generating security tokens and signing them with its signing certificate. Let's look into the AD FS versions that have...