Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 is a Security Token Service. This means that it offers a set of web services for authenticating users and programmatic clients against Active Directory, creating security tokens that can be used as sign-in tickets for web applications and web services.
Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 is the May 2010 version of AD FS. It is a Security Token Service. This means that it offers a set of web services for authenticating users and programmatic clients against Active Directory, creating security tokens that can be used as sign-in tickets for web applications and web services.
It implements the WS-Trust, WS-Federation, and SAML-P standards.
Home pages: •Product: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/ad-fs-2-overview.aspx •Technical: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/adfs2%28WS.10%29.aspx