Publication date : 06/03/2024

Course : Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS 4.0)

Practical course - 4d - 28h00 - Ref. ADL
Price : 2630 € E.T.

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS 4.0)




Single sign-on (SSO) allows users to authenticate only once and access multiple distributed resources. This course presents Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), a Microsoft solution for implementing SSO.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. ADL
  4d - 28h00
2630 € E.T.




Single sign-on (SSO) allows users to authenticate only once and access multiple distributed resources. This course presents Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), a Microsoft solution for implementing SSO.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Install and configure a public key infrastructure for ADFS
Deploy ADFS to provide claims-based authentication in a single organization
Deploying ADFS to provide authentication in a business-to-business federation
Design and deploy advanced scenarios, including high availability and SAML interoperability
Use the claims rules language to create custom rules
Troubleshooting ADFS

Intended audience
System administrator.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of network and operating systems. Knowledge of backup and restore principles in a Windows Server environment. Experience of Active Directory.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Training alternating theory and practice.

Course schedule

1
Introduction to Active Directory Federation Service

  • Understand claim-based authentication.
  • Overview of ADFS components and deployment scenarios.
  • Understand ADFS protocols (SAML, WS-Federation, WS-Trust, OAuth).
  • Understanding the AD FS WID and SQL database.
  • Understanding ADFS FARM with WID.
  • Understanding ADSF FARM with SQL.

2
Implementing an ADFS cluster

  • Requirements for deploying ADFS services.
  • Understand and implement a public key infrastructure for an ADFS cluster.
  • Request a server communication certificate for ADFS.
  • Install and configure the ADFS cluster with WID as resource provider.
  • Check ADFS cluster configuration.
  • Understanding ADFS endpoints.
  • Install and configure a secondary ADFS server in the cluster - modify the server role.
  • Understand failover to the secondary server.

3
Understanding and implementing the ADFS attribute store, approvals and claims

  • Understand the different types of attribute store - AD, LDAP and SQL.
  • Understanding the claim provider trust.
  • Understanding relying party trust.
  • Understanding claim rules: emission transformation rule.
  • Understand claim rules: authorization rule, delegation authorization rule.

4
Configuring an application based on SAML claims

  • Installation and configuration of a web server in an organization integrating a resource provider.
  • Installation and configuration of the Windows Identity Foundation SDK.
  • Conversion of a web application into a claim-based application using the Windows identity base.

5
Implementing claim-based authentication

  • Create a relying party trust for a claims-based application.
  • Integrate an "issuance transform rule" into the relying party trust.
  • Integrate an "Issuance acceptance rule" in the claims producer.

6
Additional ADFS configuration scenarios

  • Understanding Azure Active Directory.
  • Claim-providing organization versus resource-providing organization.
  • Create a "Relying Party Trust" between two organizations.
  • Custom domain configuration.
  • Create a relying party trust.
  • Create a "claim provider trust" between two organizations.
  • Create an emission transformation rule in the relying party trust.
  • Create an ADFS backup.
  • Configuration of rapid restore tool.
  • Create an emission acceptance rule in the claim provider trust.

7
WAP service implementation

  • What is a WAP (Web Application Proxy)?
  • How does WAP work?
  • Configure a WAP server.
  • Publish a relying party on a WAP server.

8
Implementing ADFS authentication for an on-cloud application

  • Understanding Azure Active Directory.
  • Custom domain configuration.
  • Create a relying party trust.

9
ADFS backup

  • Create an ADFS backup.
  • Configuration of rapid restore tool.