AD CS, AD FS, and AD RMS Flashcards
Implement Identity Federation and Access Solutions; Implement Active Directory Certificate Services
What is WIA?
Windows-Integrated Authentication
This is the traditional method of authentication using Active Directory.
What is FBA?
Forms-Based Authentication
When a server, such as a web application server, stores a user’s authentication information in a database specifically for that application.
For ADFS, what is Web Application Proxy?
This tool allows you to securely expose ADFS to the internet, so internet users can be redirected to it for authentication when accessing web applications.
With this, you don’t need to expose your ADFS server directly to the internet.
What is Microsoft Passport?
A former name for “Windows Hello for Business”
What are password-less options for authentication in ADFS?
- Azure MFA
- Device Registration
- Windows Hello for Business
What are new features for ADFS in 2016?
- Password-less Access
- Access Control Policies
- LDAP directory support
- Customized Sign-In page for each application
- Improved upgrade process, when upgrading from previous ADFS versions
- New features for developers
What steps to upgrade an AD FS farm from Version 3.0 / Server 2012 R2, to version 2016?
- First, add an ADFS 2016 node to your existing 2012R2 ADFS farm.
- If using WID: Make the ADFS 2016 Server the Primary Nodes, and the 2012R2 make Secondary. (Not necessary if using SQL.)
- Extend your AD Schema to 2016
- Remote all ADFS 2012 Nodes
- Upgrade the Farm Behavior Level (FBL)
What is a mixed farm?
An ADFS farm that includes both 2012R2 ADFS nodes, and ADFS 2016 nodes.
Typically, this would be a transitional stage before upgrading the entire farm to 2016.
What is FBL?
Farm Behavior Level
- A new feature in ADFS 2016.
- Refers to the version level that an ADFS farm operates at, whether 2012R2 or 2016.
- A farm with an FBL of 2012R2 may include 2016 nodes, but cannot use the new features of ADFS 2016 until the FBL is upgraded.
What are Primary and Secondary ADFS Servers?
In farms that use a WID:
- The Primary server / node has a writeable copy of the database.
- Secondary servers / nodes have a read-only replica of the database.
(This does not apply to farms that use a SQL database.)
What is AAD?
Azure Active Directory
What is required to synchronize on-premises ADFS with AAD?
- Create a custom Domain Name in AAD (you cannot sync ADFS with the default .onmicrsoft.com domain you get with an Azure subscription)
- Download and Install Azure AD Connect
- Federate Azure AD with ADFS (this is selected as an option during the installation of Azure AD Connect)
- During the installation, you will need the the credentials of an Azure AD user that is a Global Administrator, and an AD Domain Administrator account.
What is the default Domain Name that comes with an Azure Subscription?
.onmicrosoft.com
What computer should Azure AD Connect be installed on?
It can be installed on any server in your environment, whether a domain controller, the ADFS server itself, or any other.
How can you configure Azure MFA for authentication of on-prem applications using an on-prem Azure MFA Server?
- You need to install an on-prem Azure MFA Server
- You can install Azure MFA directly on the ADFS server; but if not, then you need the MFA Adapter for ADFS installed on the ADFS server.
- AAD is not required; no synchronization needed.
- This method supports either Server 2012R2 or 2016
- This only supports MFA for SECONDARY authentication.
How can you configure Azure MFA for authentication of on-prem applications WITHOUT using an on-prem MFA Server?
- ADFS in Server 2016 has a built-in Azure MFA Adapter (as such, this method only supports Server 2016).
- You need AAD, and have it synchronized with your on-prem ADFS.
- To facilitate this, you need Azure AD Premium.
- This method supports MFA for either primary or secondary authentication.
- If using it for primary, your clients will need to use the Microsoft Authenticator App on their phones.
What is the Azure MFA Provider, and how does it work?
A service that runs in the cloud, which can communicate with mobile phones, either through text message, phone call, or mobile app.
- It provides a code that is generated every 30 seconds for MFA purposes.
- It is available for cloud applications within Azure.
- To use it with on-prem applications, you need either an MFA Server, or an on-prem 2016 ADFS which is synchronized with AAD.
For Device Registration, where are devices registered?
- When device registration is turned on in ADFS for Server 2012R2, devices are registered in an on-prem AD.
- When device registration is turned on in ADFS for Server 2016, they are registered in AAD, though it can sync back to the on-prem AD with AAD Connect.
How are devices registered with Device Registration?
For Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, they use “Workplace Join.”
In Windows 10, they use “Add a work or school account.”
How is a Windows Hello PIN more secure than a password?
- It is tied to the device, so even if an attacker knew your PIN, it cannot be used anywhere other than on the device
- It’s backed by the TPM, when available
- It is only stored on the device, not on any server
What is Windows Hello, and how does it work?
A form of two-factor authentication that is tried to a device (factor 1), and uses either a PIN or biometric authentication (factor 2).
The second factor of authentication is called a “Hello.” It could be a fingerprint, a gesture, or facial recognition.
Once unlocked by the “Hello,” the credential on the device is sent to ADFS.
This credential is based either on a certificate or a cryptographic key, which is bound to the TPM if the device has one, or otherwise is created in software.
(The public key is stored in AD or AAD.)
HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WORK?
- From within Office 365, run the Directory Synchronization Wizard.
- This first downloads a utility to evaluate your environment’s AD, domain, objects, etc.
- Next, you must select or add a routable domain, which cannot be the default one that comes with AAD.
- Add necessary records to your domain’s DNS, depending on what Office 365 services you want to use.
- Use IDFix to look for and resolve any problems in your directory.
- Run Azure AD Connect, selecting to Federate with ADFS.
What is AD LDS?
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
An LDAP directory that comes with Windows Server. Multiple instances of AD LDS can exist on a single server, each of which can have its own schema.
What is ADFS Proxy?
An older technology, which Web Application Proxy has replaced since Server 2012 R2.