Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying ADFS
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Note
For the most current issues related to SharePoint support for ADFS, see article
912492, Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Support boundaries for Active Directory Federation Services , on the Microsoft
Knowledge Base Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=58576).
Set Up Additional Computers Required for
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Search
Functionality
For SharePoint Portal Server 2003 search functionality to work with ADFS, SharePoint
Portal Server 2003 must be configured for a large server farm deployment. To set up a large server farm using SharePoint Portal Server 2003, a minimum of six computers is required. Each computer has a dedicated role assigned to the farm, as identified in the following list:
Two Web servers running the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Web service (more commonly known as front-end Web servers)
Two Web servers running the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 search service
One Web server running the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 index service
One database server running SQL Server 2000 (which stores the SharePoint Portal
Server 2003 content database)
For search functionality to be accessible by federated users, ADFS requires that at least one of the dedicated front-end Web servers be configured for federation (by enabling the
ADFS Web Agent and anonymous access). The second front-end Web server is not federated, and it is set to Integrated Windows authentication.
For the purposes of this guide, the server named adfsweb acts as the federated, frontend Web server. You then add an additional five computers to your existing ADFS test lab and configure them to host the appropriate SharePoint Portal Server 2003 service or
SQL service. Then, you join them to the treyresearch.net domain as shown in the following illustration.
