I have an ADFS farm with four servers all using WID. This environment is for Office 365.
Servers are 2016 and current farm behavior is 1.
Server1 (primary)
Server2 ( secondary)
Server3 ( secondary)
Server4 ( secondary)
I disconnected server4 from the farm using,Set-AdfsFarmInformation -RemoveNode
Server4 is gone when I do Get-AdfsFarmInformation. I have not removed ADFS role from server 4 yet.
After 5-10 minutes when I run Get-AdfsFarmInformation the server4 shows up as connected again. I use the command Set-AdfsFarmInformation -RemoveNode and it goes away and shows joined in five minutes.
My question:
I want to keep Server4 separate from all the servers so I can run parallel adfs environment for testing.
I want to promote server4 as independent primary server. So Server 4 environment is different from Server1 thru 3.
I cannot use ADFS rapid tool to restores as FBL is 1.
Help here !
John