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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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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 deployment topologies

There are a few different deployment models we can use for AD FS deployment:

  1. A single federation server
  2. A single federation server and single Web Application Proxy server
  3. Multiple federation servers and multiple Web Application Proxy servers with SQL Server

In this section, we are going to look into these different topologies and their characteristics.

A single federation server

This is the simplest AD FS deployment model available. It contains a single AD FS server. It doesn't have high availability (unless at the host level).

This is ideal for a lab environment or staging environment:

Figure 14.3: Single federation server deployment

In the preceding example, we have a web application, myapp.rebeladmin.com, that needs to allow access via AD FS. We have one AD FS server in the setup with WID. It is behind the corporate firewall and there are Network Address Translation (NAT) and access rules...