Here you will find links to Step-by-Step and How To guides that information technology (IT) professionals can use to evaluate Active Directory® Federation Services (AD FS) version 2.0, along with other identity management and Windows Server® technologies.

• Using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 with a Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) Application
  
  This guide provides instructions for setting up AD FS 2.0 and Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) in a small test lab with a server running the Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. It explains how to install and configure all the settings and prerequisite software necessary to create a single computer with an application that trusts the claims that AD FS 2.0 issues. This document is intended for developers and system architects who are interested in completing the walkthrough demonstration of the features, functionality, and interoperability capabilities of AD FS 2.0 and WIF.
  
  
• How to Configure AD FS 2.0 to Provide SSO Access to Microsoft Online Services
  
  This guide will help you implement an end-to-end, claims-based, Web single-sign-on (SSO) and identity-based federation solution to Microsoft® Online Services in either a production environment or a test lab environment.
  
  
• Federated Document Collaboration Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and AD FS 2.0
  
  This guide is intended for those who want to implement secure collaboration between organizations by using Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and AD FS 2.0. The instructions in this guide should take approximately 90 minutes or less to complete. This guide is not stand-alone content. To make full use of this guide, you can download and import four preconfigured virtual machine (VM) images from the Download Center.
  
  
• How to Set Up the AD FS 2.0 VM Lab Environment for Federated Collaboration
  
  This guide walks you through the setup of a small test lab environment that you can use to evaluate the next generation of Microsoft federated identity technologies. This document is intended for IT professionals and application developers who want to create a lab environment specifically for use with the Federated Document Collaboration Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and AD FS 2.0 guide. This guide demonstrates the implementation and evaluation of an end-to-end, claims-based, identity-based federation solution. The instructions in this guide should take approximately four hours to complete.
  
  
• Identity Delegation with AD FS 2.0 Step-by-Step Guide
  
  This guide walks you through the lab setup and demonstration of a composite ASP.NET application that takes advantage of the identity delegation feature of WIF and AD FS 2.0. This document is intended for IT professionals and application developers who want to recreate this lab environment and evaluate this feature for themselves.