AD FS

Active Directory Federation Services

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How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The blog post on how to integrate Office 365 with Windows 2012 R2 AD FS raised an interesting question from a reader (Hi Eric!) on how should he request a certificate for the AD FS instance since there is no longer an IIS dependency.  This means that there is no longer an IIS console to generate a certificate request with.  What to do?

You could generate a certificate request, complete it and then e… Read the rest “How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange”

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Enabling AD FS 2012 R2 Extranet Lockout Protection

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Security is an integral aspect of running modern IT operations.  There is a clear understanding that we need to protect our IT assets, company data and personal identifiable information.  So when we discuss a migration to Office 365, security is an inevitable topic.  One aspect that we need to discuss is around account lockout, and how to protect our Active Directory accounts as part of the overal… Read the rest “Enabling AD FS 2012 R2 Extranet Lockout Protection”

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 3

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
Hosting AD FS In Azure For DR Purposes

Well then, here we are in part three already!  Previously we:

Installed AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365 in part 1

Installed AD FS 2012 R2 Proxy For Office 365 in Part 2

Now we want to change the Office 365 domain to be a federated domain.  As discussed in part 1, this means that all of the users who authenticate using this domain will become a federated identity and the on-premises AD FS server is responsi… Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 3”

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 2

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
Connect AD FS Office 365

In part one we installed the AD FS server on our corporate network, and tested that it was working.

Now 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 the AD FS proxy to authenticate user requests.

In part three we will add the AD FS infrastructure to the Office 365 configuration,

Planning And Prerequisites

Install And C

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How To Install AD FS 2012 R2 For Office 365

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
Install AD FS Office 365

When discussing and reviewing Office 365 with customers, I wanted to have a series of posts to illustrate the steps involved when deploying Office 365.   In the burgeoning drafts folder Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) was at the top, so that got finished first!

The act of deploying and configuring AD FS 2012 R2 for Office 365 will be broken down into three separate blog posts

  1. Install AD
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