Managing Active Directory Account Stores

Applies To: Windows Server 2003 R2

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is tightly integrated with Active Directory. ADFS retrieves user attributes and authenticates users against Active Directory. ADFS also uses Windows Integrated Authentication and security tokens that Active Directory creates.

Management of the Active Directory account store is limited to adding, removing, and enabling or disabling the account store.

Task requirements

You need the following tool to perform the procedures for this task:

• Active Directory Federation Services MMC snap-in.

To complete this task, perform the following procedures on an as-needed basis:

• Add an Active Directory account store

• Remove an Active Directory account store

• Enable or disable an account store

Account Stores