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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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Azure AD federation with AD FS

Azure AD supports various integration methods with on-prem Active Directory. We can configure federation between on-prem AD FS and Azure AD to enable integration between two systems. When federation sign-in is in place, users can log in to Azure AD using the same on-prem Active Directory user name and password. This method ensures the user authentication occurs on-prem. We can use Azure AD Connect to configure the federation. During the configuration process, we can either deploy a new AD FS server/farm or configure existing AD FS servers. In this section, I am going to demonstrate how we can configure federation sign-in between AD FS and Azure AD. Before we go into that, it is important to understand how exactly the federation sign-in method works.

Federation sign-in with Azure AD

Figure 14.20: How AD FS federation works with Azure AD

Rebeladmin Inc. has federation between Azure AD and on-prem AD FS. The user Mark is trying to access...

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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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