Introduction The claims pipeline in ADFS is an interesting piece of software. I recently had a chance to re-familiarize myself with it. A third party SaaS application used an organizations internal employee numbers together with their own customer number for that organization to uniquely identify users. This called for issuing a claim to the SaaS …
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How not to improve the security of your ADFS deployment
Introduction I was involved in an ADFS deployment recently where the customer wanted to restrict access from the Internet to their ADFS proxy servers, located on their DMZ. They used ADFS to federate with Windows Azure Active Directory so they only wanted to allow traffic from the Microsoft Online Security Token Service (STS) servers into …
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Norwegian content: How to integrate your on-premise Active Directory with Windows Azure Active Directory
I have published a 5 part blog series on the Norwegian Microsoft TechNet Blog, with step by step instructions for setting up integration between your on-premise Window Server Active Directory Directory Service and Windows Azure Active Directory. It covers concepts, single-sign on with ADFS, Directory Synchronization with the DirSync Tool and troubleshooting. So if you …