Active Directory Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Azure Traffic Manager is an Azure-based user traffic load-balancing solution. It can direct user traffic between and/or to IP addresses associated with endpoints for Azure Virtual Machines, Azure (cloud and app) services, and on-premise networks. Traffic Manager uses DNS to direct client requests to the most appropriate endpoint in its configuration, based on the traffic routing method of your choice and the health of the endpoints. It provides automatic failover.

Traffic Manager offers failover, performance, geographic, or weighted routing methods for client requests originating from outside the organization. Active Directory sites would offer routing to the closest AD FS server inside the organization.

Azure Traffic ...