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Re: How to migrate ADFS servers to Azure while keeping a backup setup on-premise?
Hi Ruud, When I said "offline" I meant that the on premise servers were going to be powered and connected to the network, but not servicing/handling the authentication requests. Can this be done? Can we have two different instances of ADFS servers running on the same domain? One on premise acting as a backup and the other one on Azure acting as the primary? We want to keep our on-premise servers just in case the Azure environment were to become unavailable. That's all.1.5KViews0likes1CommentHow to migrate ADFS servers to Azure while keeping a backup setup on-premise?
We currently host our ADFS and ADFS proxy servers on-premise. We want to set up these two servers on Azure, but we would also like to keep our existing on-premise servers offline as a backup. The idea is that if the Azure environment were to become unavailable, we would flip a switch and revert traffic back to the on-premise ADFS. How would we go about achieving this without causing any conflicts with the newly migrated ADFS servers on Azure? I was wondering if someone had any experience with what we are trying to do. I imagine that this shouldn't be too complicated. By the way, our Azure ADFS setup is not live yet. We would like to do a trial run before we go live. I do have a question about this step and having both ADFS servers and proxies running at the same time. What kind of complications could we run into if we were to run two ADFS servers, with different names and different proxies at the same time, even if it were for a brief period of time? Will redirecting the DNS traffic from the on-premise ADFS proxy to the azure ADFS proxy cause any problems with our on-premise domain controllers and the replica domain controller hosted on Azure? Thank you1.6KViews0likes3CommentsUsing Azure as a failover solution for ADFS server on prem
We want to set up ADFS on Azure as a failover solution. We want to keep our on-premise ADFS server in place, and rely on the Azure ADFS only as a backup if we were to have a failure with our on-prem server. We are trying to come up with an architecture where if our on-premise ADFS server goes down, the Azure environment (also running ADFS) would automatically kick in. How can we set this up so that it would automatically fail over from the on-premise environment to the Azure environment? Is it possible to have two instances of ADFS running at the same time? One on premise and the other one on Azure? We were looking at the diagram in the link below, and wanted to know if it'd possible to tell the Traffic Manager to route all the traffic to our internal ADFS, and if our on premise ADFS were to go down then tell it to redirect traffic to the load balancers hosted on the Azure environment. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/deployment/active-directory-adfs-in-azure-with-azure-traffic-manager In short, what I want is to be able to "flip a switch" and point traffic to the Azure environment if our on-premise ADFS server were to become unavailable. What is the best solution to accomplish this?1.4KViews0likes1CommentHow can we have Sharepoint sync directly to our file server?
Is there any way to sync a file share to SharePoint without using OneDrive? You see, we would like to maintain our files in the current network drive, exactly where they are sitting now. This will be easier for our users. We want to avoid using OneDrive as this may confuse some of them. We want them accessing the files from the network drive that is currently mapped on their computers. We also don't want to rely on the Sharepoint/One Drive environment for our backups. Which leads me to my next question. Is there any way to backup the files hosted on Sharepoint online with a backup software (e.g. Veeam)? We want to keep using the current backup solution that we have in place for all the other files servers that we host on premise. I understand that this is not what Sharepoint online is meant for. I understand that migrating to Sharepoint online, means hosting your files on the cloud and syncing them back to the client workstations through OneDrive. Having said that we would still like to administered them as if they were hosted locally (on premise). If anyone has any ideas on how we could have Sharepoint sync directly to our file server without the use of OneDrive, I would greatly appreciate it. Is this even possible? Thank you, David12KViews0likes1Comment
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