August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
786 pages
20h 22m
English
Content preview from Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition
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Federation service
This is the main role service for AD FS, and it can work at the IdP end as well as the SP end. In order to install the AD FS role service, the system needs to be a member server of an AD domain. Depending on the workload, multiple federation servers can be installed under the same domain, and this is called an AD FS farm. The federation server is responsible for generating security tokens and signing them with its signing certificate. Let's look into the AD FS versions that have been released so far.