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Change account store priority

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003 R2

If you have more than one account store in a Federation Service, you can determine the order in which Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) contacts the stores when it authenticates users. If most users are stored in one of the stores, you can set that store to have a higher priority than other stores.

Administrative credentials

To complete this procedure, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer.

To change the priority of an account store

  1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Federation Services.

  2. Double-click Federation Service, double-click Trust Policy, and then double-click My Organization.

  3. Right-click Account Stores, and then click Store Priority.

  4. In the Account Store Prioritization dialog box, click the store in the list that you want to move to the top of the list, and then click the Up button repeatedly until that store is at the top of the list.

  5. If you want to reposition any other stores in the list, select each store and use the Up and Down buttons as needed.

  6. When all stores are in the correct priority order, click OK.