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ThomasOeser
Brass Contributor
Sep 14, 2016

ADFS Rapid Restore Tool

Just wanted to notify about a new tool released a couple of weeks ago for backing up and restoring ADFS.

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/identity/ad-fs/operations/ad-fs-rapid-restore-tool

 

Will start testing this in the next weeks.

 

 

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  • Sven Buerger's avatar
    Sven Buerger
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 10, 2017

    We currently have ADFS on a single 2012 R2 server with SQL Backend.

    Because the SQL Backend isn't HA, we would like to migrate to a WID farm and at the same step upgrade to Windows Server 2016.

     

    Can I backup the configuration with this tool and restore this on a new server with a different hostname without breaking the running 2012 R2 instance?

    • Sven Buerger's avatar
      Sven Buerger
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 10, 2017
      "The restore must be done on an AD FS server of the same version as the backup"
      So it will be a backup, delete the adfs role, restore with "-WID" on the same server or using a temp server with 2012 r2 for the restore before doing the upgrade with two new 2016.

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