# Lightboard Lessons: Microsoft AD FS Web Application Proxy Using F5 BIG-IP

**URL:** <https://community.f5.com/t/lightboard-lessons-microsoft-ad-fs-web-application-proxy-using-f5-big-ip/66228>\
**Category:** F5 Technical Articles\
**Tags:** big-ip-access-policy-manager-apm, proxy, adfs, ltm, application-delivery, microsoft, lbl\
**Created:** [February 13, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/lightboard-lessons-microsoft-ad-fs-web-application-proxy-using-f5-big-ip/66228 "2018-02-13T20:08:27Z")\
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Many users and organizations want the flexibility and convenience of identity federation and Single Sign-On (SSO) from the corporate network to intranet, extranet, and cloud applications.&nbsp; Users want to&nbsp;use their corporate login information to access applications outside of the organization…for example, login from the Microsoft/Windows environment and have seamless access to Office 365 and external applications like Salesforce and Concur.&nbsp; Microsoft utlilizes a Web&nbsp;Application Proxy (WAP) that acts as a&nbsp;gateway product to allow external users to access internal applications (behind the firewall), like Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for example.

The F5 BIG-IP can be used to provide&nbsp;high availability, performance, and scalability for both AD FS and AD FS Proxy servers using the&nbsp;Local Traffic Manager (LTM) module.&nbsp; The same BIG-IP can also be used&nbsp;to secure AD FS traffic without the need for AD FS Proxy servers by using the Access Policy Manager (APM) module.&nbsp; Check out the video below to learn more!

Related Resources:

- [Deploying F5 with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services](https://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/microsoft-adfs-dg.pdf)
- [Active Directory Federation Services Content Map](https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2735.ad-fs-content-map.aspx)