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In ADFS, identity federation [4] is established between two organizations by establishing trust between two security realms. A federation server on one side (the accounts side) authenticates the user through the standard means in Active Directory Domain Services and then issues a token containing a series of claims about the user, including their identity.
Typical use-cases involve things such as cross-domain, web-based single sign-on, cross-domain user account provisioning, cross-domain entitlement management and cross-domain user attribute exchange. Use of identity federation standards can reduce cost by eliminating the need to scale one-off or proprietary solutions.
Implementation of federated VoIP involves a number of initiatives: (optionally) registering existing telephone numbers in a well-known ENUM service, typically the e164.arpa DNS domain. obtaining an SSL/TLS certificate for the domain(s) installing a SIP proxy, an XMPP/Jabber server, or both
In Windows Server 2008, Microsoft added further services to Active Directory, such as Active Directory Federation Services. [15] The part of the directory in charge of managing domains, which was a core part of the operating system, [15] was renamed Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) and became a server role like others. [3] "
One could not send messages from GTalk accounts or XMPP (which Google/GTalk is federated with—XMPP lingo for federation is s2s, which Facebook and MSN Live's implementations do not support [4]) to AIM screen names, nor vice versa. [5] In May 2011, AIM and Gmail federated, allowing users of each network to add and communicate with each other.
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System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) is a standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains, or IT systems. One example might be that as a company onboards new employees and separates from existing employees, they are added and removed from the company's electronic employee directory .
WS-Federation (Web Services Federation) is an Identity Federation specification, developed by a group of companies: BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA Inc. (along with Layer 7 Technologies now a part of CA Inc.), IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and VeriSign.