You're reading from Active Directory Administration Cookbook, Second Edition Proven solutions to everyday identity and authentication challenges for both on-premises and the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803242507

Length 696 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Identity Management

Author (1):

Sander Berkouwer

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts

2. Chapter 2: Managing Domain Controllers FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Managing Active Directory Roles and Features

4. Chapter 4: Managing Containers and Organizational Units

5. Chapter 5: Managing Active Directory Sites and Troubleshooting Replication

6. Chapter 6: Managing Active Directory Users

7. Chapter 7: Managing Active Directory Groups

8. Chapter 8: Managing Active Directory Computers

9. Chapter 9: Managing DNS

10. Chapter 10: Getting the Most Out of Group Policy

11. Chapter 11: Securing Active Directory

12. Chapter 12: Managing Certificates

13. Chapter 13: Managing Federation

14. Chapter 14: Handling Authentication in a Hybrid World (AD FS, PHS, PTA, and DSSO)

15. Chapter 15: Handling Synchronization in a Hybrid World (Azure AD Connect)

16. Chapter 16: Hardening Azure AD

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Implementing SSO using AD FS

This recipe shows how to configure an AD FS farm, consisting of one AD FS server and one publicly available Web Application Proxy for SSO.

Getting ready

While the recipes in Chapter 13, Managing Federation, showed how to build an AD FS farm, for this recipe, we'll use the built-in capability of Azure AD Connect to configure two Windows Server 2022 installations as an AD FS server and Web Application Proxy, respectively.

You'll need one domain-joined Windows Server installation running Windows Server 2016 or a newer version of Windows Server to install Azure AD Connect. Ensure this Windows Server can communicate with the internet without having to pass proxies, is domain-joined, and has IE ESC turned off. If proxies need passing, take the appropriate measures by making a proxy exception or configuring a proxy for Azure AD Connect in its configuration file.

For this recipe, you'll need two domain-joined Windows Server installations...