September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
AD FS is composed of three different server components, as follows:
• Federation server—A federation server is the main AD FS component, which holds the Federation Service role. These servers route authentication requests between connected directories.
• Federation proxy server—A federation proxy server acts as a reverse proxy for AD FS authentication requests. This type of server normally resides in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of a firewall, and is used to protect the back-end AD FS server from direct exposure to the untrusted Internet.
• AD FS Web Agents—The Web Agents component of AD FS hosts the claims-aware agent and the Windows token-based agent components that manage authentication cookies sent ...
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