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Review AD FS prerequisites

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Review AD FS prerequisites

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- [Instructor] Before you set up the Active Directory Federation Services or ADFS as it's often referred to, there are a few prerequisites that are going to need to be met. First of all you're going to need a dedicated machine or dedicated virtual server that can act as your ADFS server. Now this machine needs to be running Windows server 2012 R2 or higher, and you need to have remote management enabled on that machine. You're also going to need a machine, whether it be physical or virtual, that can act as your web application proxy. Like the ADFS server, this machine needs to be running Windows server 2012 R2 or higher and you have to have remote management enabled. You're also going to need to have a dedicated machine or dedicated virtual machine running Azure AD Connect. Azure AD Connect is the mechanism that performs synchronization between your on premises active directory environment and Azure Active Directory. Finally, you're going to need an SSL certificate for the federation…

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