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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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We started this chapter by learning about the characteristics of each of the AD FS versions. This allows us to plan for version upgrades and get the benefits from the new features. AD FS deployment topologies change according to business requirements.

In this chapter, we also learned about different topologies, their characteristics, and their advantages and disadvantages. With the help of that, you have now learned about how to select the best topology based on business requirements. Not only did we go through the theory, but we also went through AD FS deployment using a single federation server and a single web application proxy server model.

MFA is a basic security requirement for public-facing web services. Azure MFA was first introduced to provide multi-factor protection to Azure services and later developed further to support on-prem workload protections. Prior to AD FS 2016/2019/2022, it was a complicated process to implement Azure MFA for AD FS...

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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