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Published inNov 2021
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Dishan Francis
Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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How does AD FS work?

Rebeladmin Inc. is an IT service provider. There are many customers who use different IT and cloud-based services from the company. Recently, the company introduced a new web-based control panel where customers can log in and manage their resources. The same application is also used by internal staff to manage infrastructure services. Rebeladmin Inc. uses Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to manage identities. When a member of internal IT staff logs in to the portal, it doesn't ask for any login details. This is because the web application uses Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) to allow access.

This process is also called NTLM authentication or domain authentication. It doesn't prompt for the login information initially, or transfer hashed data about the currently logged-in user to the web server to check whether it's allowed. This web server is domain joined and the application itself is Active Directory-integrated. Now, users...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis