AD FS

This is the second in a series of three posts which will walk you through installing, configuring and connecting AD FS 2016 to Office 365.  In part one we installed the AD FS server on our corporate network, and tested that it was working.

In this second post we need to make the AD FS infrastructure available to the Internet in a secure fashion, so that Office 365 will be able to contact AD FS to au… Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365 – Part 2”

This is a step by step guide to installing and configuring Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for use with Office 365.  If you still wish to deploy the previous version of AD FS (Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS), then please start with this post.  For those with a keen eye, the 2012 R2 post was published exactly three years ago today.

The act of deploying and configuring … Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365”

The below Web Application Proxy (WAP) server had an unexpected issue.  When the machine came back up, it had lost the configuration to allow it to communicate to the AD FS farm.  This is not specifically an VM/Hyper-V/Azure issue, it is more of a WAP issue.

Fixing the issue is straight forward, though let’s take a look at the symptoms first.

WAP Server Errors

On the affected WAP server the AD FS serv… Read the rest “Web Application Proxy Service Not Starting Due to Malformed Configuration File”

In the Tailspintoys environment, the administrator (moi) was a bit slack.  They let the AD FS 2012 R2 proxy get into a bad state.  The AD FS Proxy was not contacting the AD FS server on the internal network, and this allowed the short lived authentication certificate to expire.  At this point the AD FS Proxy was “dead to me” as far as the AD FS server was concerned.  The internal AD FS server was … Read the rest “AD FS 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy – Re-Establish Proxy Trust”