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Greetings, <br />
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My environment consists of two ADFS servers (2012 R2) in a farm, and two web application proxy servers (also 2012 R2). The environment was set up without the forethought to configure Windows NLB prior to creating the AD FS farm. Everything is working fine, but I understand that without the use of NLB/HLB failover is a manual process. <br />
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What options do I have to add some sort of NLB or HLB into the mix?
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Greetings, 

My environment consists of two ADFS servers (2012 R2) in a farm, and two web application proxy servers (also 2012 R2). The environment was set up without the forethought to configure Windows NLB prior to creating the AD FS farm. Everything is working fine, but I understand that without the use of NLB/HLB failover is a manual process. 

What options do I have to add some sort of NLB or HLB into the mix?

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