Why adfs?

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• Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:12 PM

   

   
  

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  ADFS - Active Directory Federated Services allows the use of multiple domains that are NOT in a trust relationship.  For example there may be an external company who you want to be able to access your SharePoint extranet, but they have their own AD domain.  ADFS lets you give them access to SharePoint without establishing a full trust relationship between your domain and theirs.  Here are some articles on ADFS:

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736690(v=WS.10).aspx

  ADLDS - Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services can be used in place of full AD for login credentials for users who are not members of your existing AD domain without adding them into your domain.  Heres an article on ADLDS:

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754361(v=WS.10).aspx

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  • Proposed As Answer by Bjoern H RappMicrosoft Community Contributor, Moderator Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:28 PM
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• Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:55 PM

   

   
  

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  Thanks a lot Paul for your time.

  SO I had only intranet users.. should i go for ADFS/ADLDS?

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• Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:50 PM

   

   
  

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  If all the users are inside your network there is no reason to use either ADFS or ADLDS instead of just using regular AD.

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  Paul Stork SharePoint Server
  MVP Senior Solutions Architect: BlueChip Consulting Group
  Blog: http://dontpapanic.com/blog
  Twitter: Follow @pstork
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  • Marked As Answer by SP10Dev Thursday, June 14, 2012 5:19 PM
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