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Article: How to extend your network to your partners without risking your crown jewels; * Identity federation.(Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2)
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- Network World
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- June 28, 2006
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Byline: Dave Kearns
One of the major benefits included in Windows Server 2003 R2 is Active Directory Federation Services. This technology
allows you to grant access to some of the resources on your network to users or groups from other networks such as your business
partners or clients.
Without ADFS, granting access meant extending trust relationships from one forest to another. Many people weren't happy extending
trust relationships from one domain to another (with Windows 2000), so inter-forest trust was almost like asking cold-war
U.S. generals to give guided tours of the missile defense system to their Soviet ...