Federation Service Properties - General Tab

Applies To: Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, Windows Server 2012

Item Details

Federation Service display name

Specifies a friendly name for this Federation Service.

Federation Service name

Specifies the Domain Name System (DNS) name for this Federation Service.

Federation Service identifier

Displays the identifier for the Federation Service. This identifier identifies the service in the federation metadata that it publishes, and the security tokens that it sends to others.

Web SSO lifetime

Provides a space for you to type a new Web Single Sign-On (SSO) session lifetime setting in 1-minute increments. You can also click the up or down arrows to increase or decrease the setting in 15-minute increments. This setting specifies how long Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 uses the Web SSO cookie for SSO to Web browser clients. The minimum value is 1 minute, and the maximum value is 2,147,483,647 minutes. The default value is 480 minutes.

Monitor partners once every

Provides a space for you to type a new monitoring interval in one-hour increments. You can also click the up or down arrows to increase or decrease the setting in 12-hour increments. When you click OK, the setting that you apply starts to take effect at 12:00 A.M. (00:00). Partners are then monitored at that interval until service is interrupted. The minimum value is 1 hour, and the maximum value is 999 hours. The default value is 24 hours.