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SharePoint 2013 and ADFS 3.0 Installation Guide

Welcome to our SharePoint 2013 ADFS 3.0 Installation and Configuration series of articles.  This is an update to our original series that focused on ADFS 2.0. We’ve had several people request us to do go over setting up ADFS 3.  There

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Posted in ADFS, ADFS 3.0, SharePoint 2013, Windows Server 2012

SharePoint 2013 and ADFS 3.0 Lab Environment

Overview This is the first article in our SharePoint 2013 and ADFS 3.0 Installation and Configuration series of articles.  In this article we just showcase the lab that we have setup where this series of articles was based as well

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SharePoint 2013 Install Certificate Authority on Windows Server 2012R2

Overview This article is part 2 in our SharePoint 2013 ADFS 3.0 Installation and Configuration series for SharePoint 2013.  However this can be a stand alone article on how to configure the Certificate Authority on Windows Server 2012. In this

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SharePoint 2013 How to Install and Configure ADFS 3.0

Overview test This is part 4 in our SharePoint 2013 ADFS 3.0 Installation and Configuration series of articles. This article will outline the procedures to install ADFS 3.0 on a Windows Server 2012R2 domain controller.  In a production environment you

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SharePoint 2013 ADFS 3.0 Configure Relying Party

Overview This is part 5 in our SharePoint 2013 ADFS 3.0 Installation and Configuration series of articles.  In this article we will discuss the setup of a relying party within ADFS for use with our SharePoint 2013 farm. SharePoint 2013

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SharePoint 2013 Configure Web Application for ADFS

Overview This is part 6 in our SharePoint 2013 ADFS 3.0 Installation and Configuration series of articles.  In this article we will go over configuring the SharePoint web application to use ADFS as one of its authentication providers. SharePoint 2013

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SharePoint 2013 Configure Automatic Sign-In with Mixed Authentication

Overview This article is the final supplemental article in our “Configuration SharePoint 2013 with ADFS 3.0” series.In this article we will discuss a solution that we used in our environment to get around the authentication selector page. SharePoint 2013 and

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Remove SharePoint Client Side File Lock

Occasionally I have a user that leaves a file open on their client PC and locks the file for editing.  These locks stop anyone else from updating the document.  This emulates the behavior of a file in a Windows file

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SharePoint 2013 and ADFS 2.0 Installation Guide

We were recently tasked with provisioning a SharePoint 2013 farm that would authenticate users with SAML Claims and leverage ADFS 2.0 as the identity provider.  Nobody on the team had experience with ADFS 2.0 going into this, but figured since

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SharePoint 2013 How to Install and Configure ADFS 2.0

Introduction This article is another in our series that will outline the procedures to install ADFS 2.0 on a Windows 2008 R2 domain controller.  In a production environment you typically wouldn’t co-locate the “Domain Controller” and the “ADFS” role on

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Posted in ADFS, SAML Claims, SharePoint 2013, SSL