Active Directory Federation Services
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Active Directory Federation Services is a Microsoft identity and access management service that enables single sign-on and secure federation of user identities across organizational and application boundaries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Active Directory Federation Services canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8287763 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Active Directory Federation Services Context triple: [Windows Server 2008, includesComponent, Active Directory Federation Services]
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Active Directory
Active Directory is Microsoft's centralized directory and identity management service used to authenticate and authorize users, computers, and resources in Windows-based networks.
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B.
Active Directory Certificate Services
Active Directory Certificate Services is a Windows Server role that provides public key infrastructure (PKI) functionality for issuing, managing, and validating digital certificates within an organization’s network.
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C.
Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service that provides authentication, single sign-on, and directory services for users, applications, and resources.
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D.
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services is a flexible, standalone LDAP directory service from Microsoft that provides directory capabilities without requiring full Active Directory domain infrastructure.
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E.
Active Directory Rights Management Services
Active Directory Rights Management Services is a Microsoft server technology that protects sensitive information through encryption, access control, and usage policies integrated with Active Directory.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Active Directory Federation Services Target entity description: Active Directory Federation Services is a Microsoft identity and access management service that enables single sign-on and secure federation of user identities across organizational and application boundaries.
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A.
Active Directory
Active Directory is Microsoft's centralized directory and identity management service used to authenticate and authorize users, computers, and resources in Windows-based networks.
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B.
Active Directory Certificate Services
Active Directory Certificate Services is a Windows Server role that provides public key infrastructure (PKI) functionality for issuing, managing, and validating digital certificates within an organization’s network.
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C.
Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service that provides authentication, single sign-on, and directory services for users, applications, and resources.
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D.
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services is a flexible, standalone LDAP directory service from Microsoft that provides directory capabilities without requiring full Active Directory domain infrastructure.
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E.
Active Directory Rights Management Services
Active Directory Rights Management Services is a Microsoft server technology that protects sensitive information through encryption, access control, and usage policies integrated with Active Directory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Microsoft software product
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Windows Server role ⓘ federated identity service ⓘ identity and access management service ⓘ single sign-on solution ⓘ |
| abbreviation | AD FS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecture | claims-based identity model ⓘ |
| component |
AD FS configuration database
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AD FS federation server ⓘ AD FS proxy server ⓘ AD FS web application proxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| introducedAsRoleIn | Windows Server 2008 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Windows Server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Active Directory Federation Services 1.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesFeature |
access control policies
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claims-based authentication ⓘ conditional access control ⓘ federated authentication ⓘ federated single sign-on with cloud services ⓘ identity federation ⓘ multi-factor authentication integration ⓘ single sign-on ⓘ token issuance ⓘ token validation ⓘ web single sign-on ⓘ |
| runsOn | Windows Server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
SSL/TLS communication
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certificate-based trust ⓘ token encryption ⓘ token signing ⓘ |
| successorTechnology | Azure Active Directory for many cloud SSO scenarios ⓘ |
| supportsIntegrationWith |
Azure Active Directory
NERFINISHED
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Microsoft 365 NERFINISHED ⓘ Salesforce NERFINISHED ⓘ third-party SaaS applications ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
OAuth 2.0
NERFINISHED
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OpenID Connect NERFINISHED ⓘ SAML 2.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ WS-Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ WS-Trust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsScenario |
business-to-business federation
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business-to-consumer federation ⓘ extranet single sign-on ⓘ intranet single sign-on ⓘ |
| usesDirectory | Active Directory Domain Services NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesStandard |
JSON Web Token
NERFINISHED
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Security Assertion Markup Language NERFINISHED ⓘ X.509 certificates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Active Directory Federation Services Description of subject: Active Directory Federation Services is a Microsoft identity and access management service that enables single sign-on and secure federation of user identities across organizational and application boundaries.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.