Category: Active Directory

Active Directory Domain Services Database Mounting Tool (Snapshot Viewer or Snapshot Browser) Step-by-Step Guide Updated: March 28, 2009 Applies To: Windows Server 2008 This guide shows how you can use an improved version of Ntdsutil and a new Active Directory® database mounting tool in Windows Server® 2008 to create and view snapshots of data that is stored in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) or Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), without restarting the domain controller or AD LDS server. A snapshot is a shadow copy—created by the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)—of the volumes that contain the Active […]

Configure a New Federation Server Updated: May 5, 2010 Applies To: Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 You can use the AD FS 2.0 Federation Server Configuration Wizard to configure a new federation server and a new Federation Service. This wizard has two modes of operation. The normal mode of operation is to start the wizard without any additional command-line options specified. You can use this mode to proceed through the wizard user interface (UI) manually. As an alternative, you can run the wizard and specify all configuration options as additional command-line options. This makes it possible for you […]

The Role of Attribute Stores The Role of the AD FS Configuration Database The Role of Claims The Role of Claim Rules The Role of the Claims Engine The Role of the Claims Pipeline The Role of the Claim Rule Language How URIs Are Used in AD FS 2.0 Determine the Type of Claim Rule Template to Use   The Role of the AD FS Configuration Database Updated: May 26, 2011 Applies To: Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 The AD FS configuration database stores all the configuration data that represents a single instance of Active Directory Federation Services […]