Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

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 in the host level). This is ideal for a lab environment or staging environment:

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 in place to do the following:

• Map the external IP address to myapp.rebeladmin.com, so users can make initial requests from external networks. It is ...