Friday, October 23, 2015

ADFS : Differences across versions

This is for Active Directory Federation Services / ADFS / "AD FS".



2008 R2 (ADFS v2.0)
2012 (ADFS v2.1)
2012 R2 (ADFS v3.0)
2016 vNext (ADFS v4.0?)





Runs on IIS
Y
Y
N
N





.NET
3.5
Microsoft.Identity
4.5
System.Identity
4.5
System.Identity
4.6?
System.Identity





Authenticate against
AD
AD
AD
AD
LDAP v3
SQL Server





WS-Federation
Y
SAML 1.1 token
Y
Y
Y





SAML 2.0
Y
SAML 2.0 token
Y
Y
Y





OpenID Connect support
N
N
N
Y
Plus OpenIDConnect Discovery





OAuth 2.0 support
N
JWT token
N
JWT token
Y
Authorisation Code Grant only
JWT token
Y
All profiles
JWT token





Device registration
N
N
Y
Y





Password change support
N
N
Y
Y





Application branding with per RP customisation
N
N
N
Y





Enable delegation for service admin.
N
N
N
Y





Act as a certificate authority
N
N
N
Y


 Enjoy!

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