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You gonna use Azure for that? A good starting point is here:<br />
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<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn509539.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn509539.aspx</a>
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You gonna use Azure for that? A good starting point is here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn509539.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn509539.aspx]

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Hi Vasilcho, Is there other options that I can use besides Azure?
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Hi Vasilcho, Is there other options that I can use besides Azure?

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Hey Vasilcho, I was not counting on the DC, I thought with the installation of AD lightweight in the same server where I want to install the secondary ADFS will do.<br />
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Can I do this?
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Hey Vasilcho, I was not counting on the DC, I thought with the installation of AD lightweight in the same server where I want to install the secondary ADFS will do.

Can I do this?

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Won't you have a DC in the DR site? :)<br />
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AD FS 2.0 does NOT support AD LDS as the account store, AD FS 1.0 did.
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Won't you have a DC in the DR site? :)

AD FS 2.0 does NOT support AD LDS as the account store, AD FS 1.0 did.

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YIKES, ok.<br />
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Can I have ADFS 2.0 on a Domain Controller?<br />
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What I am thinking about doing is promoting the Cloud Server to be a Domain Controller.<br />
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Do you think this setup will work?
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YIKES, ok.

Can I have ADFS 2.0 on a Domain Controller?

What I am thinking about doing is promoting the Cloud Server to be a Domain Controller.

Do you think this setup will work?

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AD FS 2.0/2.1? You can, but you shouldn't. It requires IIS to work, and I really doubt you or your security guy will like the idea. You can use RODC instead, but you will need to enable password caching on it for any user that needs to auth to AD FS. &nbsp;<br />
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AD FS 3.0 which comes with 2012 R2 runs in the kernel and does not require IIS. You can look at that option too, but then you will probably have to rebuilt from scratch.
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AD FS 2.0/2.1? You can, but you shouldn't. It requires IIS to work, and I really doubt you or your security guy will like the idea. You can use RODC instead, but you will need to enable password caching on it for any user that needs to auth to AD FS.  

AD FS 3.0 which comes with 2012 R2 runs in the kernel and does not require IIS. You can look at that option too, but then you will probably have to rebuilt from scratch.

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Hello All,<br />
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I am planning on setting up an ADFS farm (Federated with Office 365) that will have as members our internal ADFS (Primary ADFS server already in place) and our DR server in the cloud. Both of the servers are Windows Server 2012 Standard.<br />
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My purpose is that in case our internet connectivity goes down, our ADFS will failover to my ADFS DR server located in the cloud and users will still be authenticated in the Office 365 portal.<br />
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Can someone help me on this?
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Hello All,

I am planning on setting up an ADFS farm (Federated with Office 365) that will have as members our internal ADFS (Primary ADFS server already in place) and our DR server in the cloud. Both of the servers are Windows Server 2012 Standard.

My purpose is that in case our internet connectivity goes down, our ADFS will failover to my ADFS DR server located in the cloud and users will still be authenticated in the Office 365 portal.

Can someone help me on this?

ADFS 2.0 Farm setup

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through datacenters. It provides both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Cloud Services is a PaaS environment and can be used to create scalable applications and services; there are specific software development kits (SDKs) provided by Microsoft for Python, Java, Node.js and .NET. Azure also has file and storage services, data management, analytics and DNS services.