Planning the Network for AD FS

Other than standard TCP/IP connectivity, network requirements for AD FS consist of DNS entries that must be configured to direct traffic to the AD FS systems, and firewall ports that need to be opened. Following are the specific DNS requirements for AD FS:

• For internal connectivity to AD FS, a single host record can be added to the internal DNS zone, mapping the fully qualified name of the federation service to either the IP address of the federation server (for single-server installations) or the virtual IP address of the load-balancing cluster (for multiple-server installations).

• For external connectivity to AD FS, a single host record can be added to the external DNS zone, mapping the fully qualified name ...

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