ADFS 2.0 Configured to authenticate users from ADAM

Question

How to configure ADFS to different ADAM store rather than the domain/AD the ADFS is installed on?

For example: ADFS 2.0 is installed on xyz.com domain & users authentication happen with some ADAM store (all we have is the connection string)...

Answer 1

At last we created the custom STS that ADFS will trust for our solution.

So now:

RP will be added in ADFS.

ADFS trust token from custom STS.

HomeRealmDiscovery modified to show custom STS login page.

Custom STS creates the token & pass to ADFS & ADFS is set to pass claims & token to RP.

& it all worked.

We had many issues with setting up the right certificated (in our test we used Selfssl7) & everything is on same machine with ADFS, CustomSTS & RP working on different ports (ADFS on default 443).

Answer 2

ADAM is essentially an LDAP - look here

Note that you can only use ADAM for authorisation not authentication.