I am happy to announce that both the revamped ADFS Design Guide and the new ADFS Deployment Guide can now be found up on the web. Both guides will also be available as downloadable documents sometime early to mid-January. Take a look and send me your...

I'm happy to announce that both guides are scheduled to go live on the web December 15th! I will post the minute they go live.

All of the tech review feedback for the ADFS Deployment Guide and the ADFS Design Guide was submitted early this week, as planned. I am in the process of making changes to the source files based on this feedback and am on target to turn over the files...

Great news! It looks like the majority of feedback from the ADFS product team will be complete by early next week. This means that it is very likely we will get both guides published to the ADFS TechCenter Web site in the mid-December timeframe. I plan...

Just found out about a new ADFS Webcast that has not yet been publicized (You heard it here first, folks!). Check out the details below: Title: Web Single Sign-On and Identity Federation with Active Directory Federation Services Description: As...

You've heard me talk about checklists for awhile now so it's finally time for me to show you one that we intend to use in the guide. Try and resist the urge to click the links because they won't take you anywhere, not until the guide is ready anyway....

Only one update this week to the Operations Guide (see link below). It looks like the new Troubleshooting topics will not be fully reviewed until sometime next month at the earliest. I’ll keep you posted once I know the details. Turn CRL checking on...

New version includes some minor UI updates as well as the removal of the sample Windows NT token-based app from the guide. This was removed to reduce complexity and to help shorten the time necessary to set up a working ADFS lab. If you need the token...

If you are interested, one of our developers came up with a nifty table that shows all of the ADFS-related cache settings. You can now find this information in the following Ops guide topic: Configuring ADFS Servers for Troubleshooting

It's actually been out for about a month but I'm just now getting a chance to make sure you know about it. The ADFS Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Pack can be helpful whenever you need to diagnose or monitor the health state of ADFS. To read the accompanying...

Detailed instructions for how to set up a federation server proxy (slated for the upcoming ADFS Design and Deployment guides) are currently awaiting technical review by the product team, so I can't divulge those finer details at the moment. However, I...

Based on customer feedback I recently received from the Active Directory newsgroups, I went ahead and created some supplemental material that walks you through how to remove SharePoint from the existing ADFS Step-by-Step guide and then insert alternate...

This article can be used as a supplement to the ADFS Step-by-Step Guide. It includes instructions for setting up a sample Windows NT token-based application on the Web server (adfsweb) as an alternative to using Windows SharePoint Services. This sample...

The new version of the guide will provide more granular details than the one that exists today. So far there are about 15 new topics that will make it into the guide and more are in the works. Here are some of the proposed topic titles to give you an...

You can now download the Longhorn version of the step-by-step guide from the connect.microsoft.com web site. SharePoint is not used in this document. Another thing to point out is that self-signed certificates are now issued via the new IIS 7.0 "Create...

This document is now editing complete. It is currently going through our internal test process to make sure all links and icons are showing up as expected. It should go live on connect.microsoft.com early next week. I'll post the minute it goes live on...

I'm going to provide occasional sneak peeks at ADFS documentation under development so that you have an opportunity to provide feedback about it. This week’s sneak peek comes from the upcoming ADFS Deployment Guide, which will use checklists to more quickly...

The writing for this guide has been completed. If everything goes as planned it should make it through the editing process next week and go live to the web a few days later. Since it is a beta document, it is only slated to post to the connect.microsoft...

I'm going to try and keep everyone in the loop whenever I update or add new topics to existing documentation. There are several new Troubleshooting topics under review by the product team right now. I hope to make them publicly available in the ADFS Ops...

The current plan is to provide the vast majority of IT Pro-based ADFS documentation (for R2 primarily) by the end of 2006. We are in the process of writing the ADFS Deployment Guide now and plan to update the existing ADFS Design Guide soon afterwards...

We just launched the ADFS TechCenter Web Site ( http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/adfs/default.mspx ) yesterday! This is your one-stop-shop for all things ADFS. The site provides easy access to ADFS documentation, popular...

My name is Nick Pierson and I'm the Technical Writer assigned to documenting the Active Directory Federation Services technology here at Microsoft. To be more specific, I own the majority of IT Professional-based ADFS content that comes out of Microsoft...