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 data centers. Each data center is defined as an Active Directory site. The traffic required for Active Directory replication is allowed, as is TCP 80 between the AD FS servers.

Perform the steps from the Installing the AD FS server role recipe in Chapter 13, Managing Federation, to install the AD FS server role on two Windows Server installations, each running in a separate, geographically dispersed data center. Perform the steps from the Setting up an AD FS farm with Windows Internal Database recipe in Chapter 13, Managing Federation...