Chapter 3. Active Directory Federation Services
Different types of user accounts
Integrating Active Directory with Office 365
Active Directory Federation Services
Removing Active Directory Federation Services
MICROSOFT Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) provides single sign-on (SSO) by using token-based authentication. With SSO, a service will trust the authentication token of a user who has successfully logged on to a disparate but trusted network. As such, the service will grant access without requiring the user to authenticate again. For example, if a user has already been authenticated by Active Directory (AD) and if SSO is configured, Office 365 will provide access to the user without a challenged logon.
SSO through AD FS is not mandatory ...
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