Install and configure Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)

In this article, you will learn how to install and configure Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) on Windows Server. Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution created by Microsoft. As a component of Windows Server OS, it provides users with authenticated access to applications that are not capable of using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) through Active Directory (AD). Please see Guide on federating ADFS with Azure Active Directory, and “Pass-Through Authentication Authentication and ADFS environment setup on Hyper-V for Hybrid Identity integration“.

Now, the certificate has been successfully imported in the Certificate store, see this link for the steps to import a certificate in the Certificate store. It is time to have the AD FS role installed.

Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) requires a certificate for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) server authentication on each federation server.

See this guide for how to create a certificate signing request. Also, see “How to delete ADFS Windows Internal Database without access credentials“, and how to Enable Autologon and Autostart for user session.

Install Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

To do this, select on Manage, and click on Add Roles and Features

Click on Next on the Before you begin window

Note: Furthermore, You can decide to skip this page as well

Select Role Based or feature Based Installation

Under the server selection, select your desired server where you want the role to be installed and click on the next.

Under Server Role, Select Active Directory Federation Services and click on next

I am not requiring any further feature at the moment, so I click on next. Also on the Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), click on next

On the confirm Installation Window, and click on Install.

And this completes the role installation of AD FS on the Server. Please see the Post deployment (configuration) of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

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