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Complete Newbie to AD FS

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Guys,
I apologize profusely in advance, but I am a total newbie with AD FS. I understand at a high level what it is, what it does. We are going to be using smart card authentication with outside visitors to a SharePoint application, so we will be moving in that direction. I just don't know where to get started. We are looking to set up a single, stand-alone AD FS server to interface with a UAT SharePoint farm. We'll be using SQL Server since I understand that it will want a configuration database.
Question - is a proxy server absolutely necessary?
Question - is AD FS configured first and then SQL Server installed, or doesn't it matter?
Question - are there any tutorials that not only walk you step by step through doing things, but lay out what you will need to do and why?
I have no experience with this and I just need to get started.
Thanks again
James D. Angielczyk
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 11:33 PM
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Some links:
Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS Deployment Guide
The Role of the AD FS Configuration Database
Configure SAML-based claims authentication with AD FS in SharePoint 2013
A proxy (WAP) is not mandatory.
Did you consider WID as your DB? Refer 2nd link. I hardly ever user SQL.
Your instance is not "stand-alone". It will be the first instance in a farm, so you can add more servers if required.
- Edited by nzpcmad1 Wednesday, February 3, 2016 6:22 PM sp
- Proposed as answer by Pierre Audonnet [MSFT]Microsoft employee Saturday, February 6, 2016 5:11 PM
- Marked as answer by Pierre Audonnet [MSFT]Microsoft employee Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:43 AM
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 6:21 PM
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See this link for a good ADFS primer http://bit.ly/1P5i4Dh ADFS Design Considerations and Deployment Options
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 4:57 PM -
Some links:
Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS Deployment Guide
The Role of the AD FS Configuration Database
Configure SAML-based claims authentication with AD FS in SharePoint 2013
A proxy (WAP) is not mandatory.
Did you consider WID as your DB? Refer 2nd link. I hardly ever user SQL.
Your instance is not "stand-alone". It will be the first instance in a farm, so you can add more servers if required.
- Edited by nzpcmad1 Wednesday, February 3, 2016 6:22 PM sp
- Proposed as answer by Pierre Audonnet [MSFT]Microsoft employee Saturday, February 6, 2016 5:11 PM
- Marked as answer by Pierre Audonnet [MSFT]Microsoft employee Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:43 AM
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 6:21 PM -
We have it straightened out and we'll be using WID. We are good to go now. Thanks much.
James D. Angielczyk
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 12:45 PM