AD FS deployment topologies

There are few different deployment models we can use for AD FS deployment. In this section, we are going to look into these different topologies and their characteristics.

Single federation server

This is the simplest AD FS deployment model available. It contains a single AD FS server. It doesn't have high availability (unless in the host level). This is ideal for a lab environment or staging environment:

In the preceding example, we have a web application, myapp.rebeladmin.com, that needs to allow access via AD FS. We have one AD FS server in the setup with WID. It is behind the corporate firewall and there are Network Address Translation (NAT) and access rules in place to do the following...