Convert Synced User to In-Cloud User

Here is the scenario: Synced ID: Specifies the immutable ID of the federated identity of the user. This should be omitted for users with standard identities. You have local Active Directory with AAD Connect installed, which sync users and password … Continue reading →

Migrate Office 365 Relying Party Trust to Different ADFS Farm

To migrate Office 365 Relying Party Trust from an existing ADFS Farm to new ADFS Farm, follow the step by step guide. Migrating Office 365 Relying Party Trust will incur a minor disruption to SSO environment. Prerequisites: Existing ADFS Farm … Continue reading →

Configure Azure B2B, Azure Rights Management for on-premises SharePoint, Exchange and File server

Azure Information Protection (Azure RMS) is an enterprise information protection solution for any organization. Azure RMS provides classification, labeling, and protection of organization’s data. Note: This deployment also enables Azure B2B access for the Published Applications in Azure AD. Azure … Continue reading →

Office 365 Hybrid Deployment with Multiple Active Directory Forests

This article explains how you can deploy a hybrid Office 365 and Exchange on-premises environment with multiple Active Directory Forest. An organisation that utilizes an account forest and a resource forest to separate Active Directory accounts and Exchange servers in … Continue reading →

Building Multiple ADFS Farms in a Single Forest

Let’s paint a picture, you have an unique requirement to build multiple ADFS farms. you have a fully functional hybrid environment with EXO. you do not want to modify AAD connect and existing ADFS servers. But you want several SaaS applications use different ADFS farm with MFA but their identity is managed by the same Active Directory forest used by existing ADFS farm.

Here is the existing infrastructure:

• 1 single forest with multiple hybrid UPNs (domainA.com, domainB.com, domainC.com and many…)
• 2x ADFS servers (sts1.domainA.com)
• 2X WAP 2012 R2 cluster
• 1x AAD Connect
• 1X Office 365 Tenant with several federated domains (domainA.com, domainB.com, domainC.com and many….)
• 1x public CNAME sts1.domainA.com

Above configuration is working perfectly.

Now you would like to build a separate ADFS 2016 farm with WAP 2016 cluster for SaaS applications. This ADFS 2016 farm will be dedicated to authenticate these SaaS applications. you would also like to turn on MFA on ADFS 2016. Add new public authentication endpoint such as sts2.domainA.com for ADFS 2016 farm.

End goal is that once user hit https://tenant.SaaSApp.com/ it will redirect them to sts2.domain.com and prompt for on-prem AD credentials and MFA if they are accessing from public network.

New ADFS 2016 infrastructure in the same forest and domain:

• 2X ADFS 2016 Servers (sts2.domainA.com)
  
• 2X WAP 2016 Servers
• 1 X separate public IP for sts2.domainA.com
• 1X public CNAME for sts2.domainA.com
• 1X Private CNAME for sts2.domainA.com

Important Note: You have to prepare Active Directory schema to use ADFS 2016 functional level. No action/tasks necessary in existing ADFS 2012 R2 environment.

Guidelines and referrals to build new environment.

Upgrading AD FS to Windows Server 2016 FBL

ADFS 4.0 Step by Step Guide: Federating with Workday

Branding and Customizing the ADFS Sign-in Pages

Deploy Web Application Proxy Role in Windows Server 2012 R2 –Part I

Deploy Web Application Proxy Role in Windows Server 2012 R2 –Part II

Office 365 Hybrid Deployment with Exchange 2016 Step by Step

Hybrid Configuration Business Case. On-premises IRM- Information Rights Management (IRM) enables users to apply Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) templates to messages that they send. Antispam and malware protection- Mailboxes moved to Office 365 are automatically provided with antivirus … Continue reading →