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Using Azure AD as an Identity Provider with ADFS for SharePoint 2013

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I had someone ask me about this topic a couple times in the last few weeks so I decided it was time to spin up another blog post. The question is about how you can connect your on premises SharePoint farm to Azure Active Directory (AAD) using ADFS. Now I had blogged about how to do this with ACS some time ago (https://samlman.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/integrating-sharepoint-2013-with-azure-active-directory-part-1-configuration/). However, as most folks know ACS is coming off the Christmas card list as it starts a slow spiral downwards to deprecation and irrelevance. Thus the questions about using ADFS instead. Fortunately this all quite possible, but there are quite a few steps, so it just takes some patience. I’ll supply the steps, you supply the patience. And with that, here we go.