August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
786 pages
20h 22m
English
Content preview from Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition
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AD FS configuration database
AD FS configuration settings needs to save in a database. AD FS supports two types of databases. The simplest method is to use the Windows Internal Database (WID), which comes with the AD FS installation. This is not a standalone database installation, and it is capable of providing high availability by copying databases to other servers in the AD FS farm. When we go for the AD FS configuration, it gives two deployment options:
- Create the first federation server in a federation server farm.
- Add the federation server to a federation server farm.
If WID is used with the first option, then WID will be deployed with scalability, which allows servers to be added to the farm later and replicate WID. The first server ...