Implementing Azure Traffic Manager for AD FS geo-redundancy

This recipe shows how to implement a geo-redundant AD FS deployment consisting of two AD FS servers and two Web Application Proxies, equally distributed over two geographically dispersed data centers.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll assume that an Active Directory domain exists with domain controllers in a networking environment consisting of two separate, geographically dispersed datacenters. Each data center is defined as an Active Directory site. The traffic required to allow Active Directory replication is allowed, as is TCP 80.

Follow the steps of Installing the AD FS server role recipe from Chapter 11, Managing Federation, to install the AD FS server...