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Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0
Collaborate across boundaries while maintaining application security
Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 helps IT enable
users to collaborate across organizational boundaries and easily access
applications on-premises and in the cloud, while maintaining application
security. Through a claims-based infrastructure, IT can enable a single sign-on
experience for end-users to applications without requiring a separate account or
password, whether applications are located in partner organizations or hosted in
the cloud.
Key ADFS 2.0 benefits include:
Streamlines User Access Management
- Implements a single user access model with native single sign on and easier federation.
- Delivers seamless user and partner access to applications, both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Works with identity management infrastructure such as Active Directory and Forefront Identity Manager.
Enhances Application Security
- Helps provide consistent security with a single user access model externalized from applications.
- Enables IT to effectively control access decisions by allowing applications and infrastructure to evolve independently.
- Provides seamless access between on-premises software and cloud services.
Enhances Interoperability and Adaptability
- Based on industry standard protocols that enables applications based on different programming models, languages and devices to interoperate.
- Seamlessly connects systems for identity based access using the claims-based architecture.
- Easily adapts new authentication methods with minimal application code changes.
