Active Directory Federation Services
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is another important part of the overall IDA solution provided by Windows Server 2008. AD FS is designed to address a situation that is common in business nowadays—a partner or client that resides on a different network has to access a Web application exposed by your own organization’s extranet. In a typical scenario, the client has to enter secondary credentials to this when she tries to access a Web page on your extranet. That’s because the client’s credentials on her own network might not be compatible or might not even be known by the directory service running on your own network.
AD FS is designed to eliminate the need for entering such secondary credentials ...
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