Both Lu Zhao and I on the AD FS product team have been working on a new community-based Wiki page we are calling the AD FS 2.0 Content Map that we want to encourage members of the AD FS 2.0 community to blog about, evangelize and even help us to build on top of our initial list of links. With your help we would like to create a one-stop-shop Wiki page where anyone and everyone interested in AD FS 2.0, from beginner to expert, can find the information they are looking for or at least a relevant jump off point. :)

I will be adding many links to the AD FS 2.0 Content Map page across many of the topics I own in the AD FS 2.0 TechNet Library over the next couple of weeks in an effort to empower the community to contribute. The content links you can add to this wiki page are not restricted to only content that resides within microsoft.com. Therefore you can feel free to add links to this page that you feel will help the overall community even if they originated from blog posts, 3rd party sites, or elsewhere on the Internet. 

We only ask that you try your best to fit the content links you proivde into one of the following content categories:

• Learn about AD FS 2.0 
• Research AD FS 2.0 Solutions 
  • Integration with Microsoft cloud products
  • Integration with Microsoft on-premises products
  • Interoperability with non-Microsoft products
  • Case studies
• Design and Deploy AD FS 2.0
• Manage AD FS 2.0
• Troubleshoot AD FS 2.0
• Additional AD FS 2.0 References

That way, we keep some resemblence of structure for those of you out there who like navigating through the page to find content within the context of a specific need you have at the time you land on the page. We can add more categories and subcategories to the page but we want to at least keep this baseline structure in place and with your improvements we hope to compliment it with additional structure.

Well that's quite a mouthful but we wanted to get the word out on this right away so please do the same and blog about this new Wiki page.

Much obliged, Nick

BTW, please send any feedback you have about this new Wiki page to adfs2wikifeedback

Determine Your AD FS 2.0 Deployment Topology

• AD FS 2.0 Deployment Topology Considerations
• Stand-Alone Federation Server Using WID
• Federation Server Farm Using WID
• Federation Server Farm Using WID and Proxies
• Federation Server Farm Using SQL Server

  Let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

   

  Thanks,

  Nick

Planning for AD FS 2.0 Server Capacity

·         Planning for Federation Server Capacity

·         Planning for Federation Server Proxy Capacity

If you get the chance, please send feedback on these topics and I will bring them to the product team.

Thanks,

Nick

Where to get the tool -  https://blogs.technet.com/adfs/archive/2007/11/01/adfs-diagnostic-tool.aspx

Where to send feedback -  https://blogs.technet.com/adfs/default.aspx

 https://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/servermanager/activedirectoryfederationservices.mspx

Here is a list of all the published docs for ADFS as of August 2006. Some deliverables can be downloaded in document format while others are Web browsable. 

• ADFS Overview

Document Format (only)

This document includes many of the important conceptual topics originally published in the ADFS Help (R2).

• ADFS Step-by-Step Guide

Document Format (only)

This guide provides instructions for setting up ADFS in a small test lab environment. This latest version (posted in March 2006) includes instructions for setting up Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and a sample claims-aware application.

• ADFS Design Guide

Document Format               Web Browser

This guide provides recommendations to help you plan a new ADFS deployment based on the requirements of your organization and the particular design that you want to create.

• ADFS Operations Guide

Document Format               Web Browser

This guide provides steps for managing and troubleshooting existing ADFS deployments. This includes instructions for how to create and manage federation server proxy and federation server farms.

• ADFS MOM Pack

Document Format (only)

The ADFS Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Pack provides information useful for determining the health state of ADFS. To read the document format, first download and run the .msi file and then read the Microsoft Windows ADFS Management Pack Guide.doc file.

• ADFS SDK

Web Browser (only)

The SDK details the ADFS namespaces (System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn and System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.Authorization) and is intended for use by web-based application developers, both internally and externally focused and ISVs developing extranet-focused applications.

• Customizing Client Logon and Home Realm Discovery Pages

This topic discusses the customization of the AD FS user experience.

• Claims-Aware Applications

Claims-aware applications can make authorization decisions based on the identity, group, or custom claims that can be passed between entities.

• Custom Claims Transformation Modules

Custom claims transformation modules are custom authentication modules that allow you to authenticate users based on custom business logic, such as confirmation against a SQL Server table.

• Managing Trust Policy

This topic includes scripts that allow you to maintain AD FS trust policy settings.

As we move ahead with Windows Server 2008 and the future of AD FS, please don't hesitate to let us know what other topics you'd like to see us cover in the AD FS SDK, either via comments on this blog or via the MSDN Community Content pages.