Migrate AD FS 1.x Federation Service Settings to the AD FS 2.0 Federation Service

Applies To: Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0

Migrate AD FS 1.x Federation Service Settings to the AD FS 2.0 Federation Service

Use the following procedure to record the settings in your Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 1.x Federation Service deployment and step through the migration of those settings to the AD FS 2.0 Federation Service. You can use the AD FS snap-in on the source AD FS 1.x federation server to identify which settings to record in the following table.

Note

Settings are shown in each of the tables in this topic only when there is an equivalent AD FS 2.0 Federation Service setting that corresponds to an AD FS 1.x Federation Service setting. Most settings are optional. Only the settings tha are marked with an asterisk (*) are required for the successful migration of AD FS 1.x Federation Service settings to AD FS 2.0.

To migrate AD FS 1.x Federation Service settings to AD FS 2.0

You perform the steps in this table only once for each AD FS 1.x Federation Service that you are migrating to AD FS 2.0.

Step Locate the AD FS 1.x Federation Service setting in the AD FS snap- Record the AD FS 1.x Federation Service setting value here Type the recorded value of the AD FS 2.0 equivalent Federation Service setting in the AD FS 2.0 Management snap-in

1

Setting:

Federation Service URI *

Location:

Federation Service\Trust Policy Properties\ in General Tab\

Setting:

Federation Service identifier

Location:

AD FS 2.0\Service Properties\General Tab\

2

Setting:

Display name for this trust policy

Location:

Federation Service\Trust Policy Properties\Display Name Tab\

Setting:

Federation Service display name

Location:

AD FS 2.0\Service Properties\General Tab\

3

Setting:

Token lifetime (minutes)

Location:

Federation Service\Trust Policy Properties\Advanced Tab\

Setting:

WebSSO lifetime

Location:

AD FS 2.0\Service Properties\General Tab\

4

Setting:

Event log level

Location:

Federation Service\Trust Policy Properties\Event Log Tab\

Setting:

Events

Location:

AD FS 2.0\Service Properties\Events Tab\