Checklist: Deploy your federation server farm on legacy versions of Windows Server

Applies To: Azure, Office 365, Power BI, Windows Intune

The following checklists include the deployment tasks that are necessary to create the first AD FS federation server in a new farm, create the second federation server, and then join the second federation server to the farm running on legacy versions of Windows Server.

Checklist Checklist: Deploy your federation server farm on legacy versions of Windows Server

Deployment task Links to topics in this section Completed

1. Install the AD FS software and ADĀ FS 2.0 hotfixes on the computers that will become federation servers.

Install the AD FS software

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2. Configure the AD FS software on one of the computers to act in the federation server role. Follow this procedure to create the first federation server in a new farm.

Configure the first federation server in the federation server farm

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3. Configure the second federation server using the same steps above and then skip to this task and use the procedure to the right to join this new federation server to the new farm.

Add a federation server to the federation server farm

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4. From a client computer, verify that the federation servers are operational.

Verify that the federation server is operational

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See Also

Concepts

Checklist: Use AD FS to implement and manage single sign-on