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

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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Adding additional AD FS servers to an AD FS farm

This recipe demonstrates how to add additional AD FS servers to an AD FS farm.

After setting up the AD FS farm by implementing the first AD FS server, use this recipe to add additional AD FS servers to the farm.

Before you begin, ensure that:

The same TLS certificate used when configuring the first AD FS server is available for any additional AD FS servers in the same AD FS farm. Install the certificate in the Personal certificate store for the local machine.
The proposed AD FS server is a domain-joined Windows Server installation, and you are signed in with a domain account that is a member of the Domain Admins group.
The AD FS farm name resolves to all AD FS servers in the AD FS farm in the appropriate DNS zones.
The primary AD FS server is reachable for AD FS farms using WID, and an SQL server is available and reachable for AD FS farms using an SQL Server as their backends.
The AD FS...