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How to set up AD FS for a development machine

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In this article I will describe how you should set up a development computer to use an existing AD FS. First thing we need to do is to create a trust between the ADFS server and the development machine. You can do this by login in with RDP at the server that is running ADFS and start up the "AD FS 2.0 Management" that is found under the Administrative tools. When the AD FS 2.0 Management studio is started you need to navigate to the "Relying Party Trusts" in the left folder structure. Then you nee to select "Add Relying Party Trust..." in the right menu. This will open the "Add Relying Party Trust Wizard" as shown below. When clicked on "Start" the following screen will open. Here you can specify how the relying party configuration is configured. For a development machine it is most easy to select just the last option "Enter data about the relying party manually" In the next screen you can fill in a name and descr