Delivering authentication and authorization improvements with Windows Server 2016

For Microsoft, and the hybrid vision AD FS, Windows Server 2016 plays a key role in the whole IAM strategy. It's critical to the overall success of Azure Stack and the hybrid identity. This takes us to the point of the new feature sets of AD FS 4.0, which you can include in your design considerations. Additionally, we will provide more in-depth insights in a later, special chapter dedicated to the new features of Windows Server 2016.

Features overview

The AF FS provides the following extensions to the identity and access management framework:

• Comprehensive Authentication, supporting multiple stores with additional security controls for MFA

• Enhanced Conditional Access, supporting MDM capabilities for conditional Access Control

• Modern applications - REST based services support with OAuth

• Enhanced Sign-In experience - a rich and flexible set of customization options in special per relying party

• Simplified deployment...