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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787289352

Length 742 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2016

3. Designing Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2016

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services

12. Active Directory Certificate Services

13. Active Directory Federation Services

14. Active Directory Rights Management Services

15. Active Directory Security Best Practices

16. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

AD management with PowerShell - preparation

17. Azure Active Directory Hybrid Setup

18. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

19. Active Directory Troubleshooting

AD FS components

When the AD FS role is installed, there are few related components we need to be aware of. Before Windows Server 2012 R2, there were four AD FS roles services: the federation service, the federation service proxy, the claim-aware agent, and windows token-based agent (to support the AD FS 1.x interoperability). These are no longer available as role services; and when go to install AD FS, it will only have the Federation Service role.

Federation Service

This is the main role service for the AD FS, and it can work on IdP as well as the SP end. In order to install the AD FS role service, 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 it is called as AD FS Farm. The federation server is responsible for generating security tokens and signing them with its signing certificate. There have been very few versions of AD FS so far.