Managing ADFS Web Agents and Applications

Applies To: Windows Server 2003 R2

ADFS Web Agents are Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) components that consume security tokens and either allow or deny a user access to a Web application. ADFS Web Agents are available for two types of Web applications:

  • ADFS Web Agent for Windows NT token-based applications: Internet Information Services (IIS) applications that use traditional Windows native authorization mechanisms. This type of application does not use ADFS claims.

  • ADFS Web Agent for claims-aware applications: Applications that have been written to use ADFS claims for authorization.

The following tasks for managing ADFS Web Agents and applications are described in this objective.

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Controlling Access to Web-based Applications