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October 08, 2009 12:00 AM

Q. How many Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) servers do I need in a multi-domain environment?

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A. ADFS works well with trusts, so the answer depends on the trusts between the domains. Essentially, the ADFS server has to be able to query the user account to populate the claims information.

A single ADFS server can service all domains in a forest (because all domains in a forest have bi-directional, transitive trusts). In addition, a single ADFS server could service all domains and forests that have a trust relationship. If you have forests without trusts, you need one ADFS server for each forest.

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  • 2 years ago
    Apr 19, 2010

    John,

    This ia great article.

    I have a related question.

    How many ADFS (Federation Servers) do we need in a Single Domain Environment? We have different user repositories for employees on Intranet (AD) and clients on Internet (ADAM).

  • Rahul Kohli
    2 years ago
    Apr 19, 2010

    John,

    This ia great article.

    I have a related question.

    How many ADFS (Federation Servers) do we need in a Single Domain Environment? We have different user repositories for employees on Intranet (AD) and clients on Internet (ADAM).

  • Rahul Kohli
    2 years ago
    Apr 19, 2010

    John,

    This ia great article.

    I have a related question.

    How many ADFS (Federation Servers) do we need in a Single Domain Environment? We have different user repositories for employees on Intranet (AD) and clients on Internet (ADAM).

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