Deploying Directory Synchronization
After both the ADFS internal and ADFS proxy servers are installed and configured, we need to start the installation of Directory Synchronization, before we can start testing whether ADFS was set up successfully. The following high-level steps will be performed when installing the Directory Synchronization server:
Confirming the preparation specifications
Enabling and downloading Directory Synchronization
Installing Directory Synchronization
Configuring Directory Synchronization
Confirming the preparation specifications
For this example, we are going to build the Directory Synchronization server with the following specifications:
Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit
4 GB of memory
Quad core 2 GHz
Active Directory joined
All of the latest Windows Updates applied
Computer Name—DIRSYNC (you will want to name this server based on your standard AD object naming scheme)
There is a 10,000 object limit for Directory Synchronization but this can be increased by opening a service request...