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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

Azure AD federation with AD FS

Azure AD supports various integration methods with on-prem Active Directory. We can configure federation between on-prem AD FS and Azure AD to enable integration between two systems. When federation sign-in is in place, users can log in to Azure AD using the same on-prem Active Directory user name and password. This method ensures the user authentication occurs on-prem. We can use Azure AD Connect to configure the federation. During the configuration process, we can either deploy a new AD FS server/farm or configure existing AD FS servers. In this section, I am going to demonstrate how we can configure federation sign-in between AD FS and Azure AD. Before we go into that, it is important to understand how exactly the federation sign-in method works.

Federation sign-in with Azure AD

Figure 14.20: How AD FS federation works with Azure AD

Rebeladmin Inc. has federation between Azure AD and on-prem AD FS. The user Mark is trying to access...