Checklist: Creating Claim Rules for a Relying Party Trust

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Applies To: Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0

This checklist includes the tasks that are necessary for planning, designing, and deploying claim rules that are associated with a relying party trust in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0.

Note

Complete the tasks in this checklist in order. When a reference link takes you to a procedure, return to this topic after you complete the steps in that procedure so that you can proceed with the remaining tasks in this checklist.

Checklist: Creating a claim rule set for a relying party trust

  Task Reference

Review concepts about claims, claim rules, claim rule sets, and claim rule templates and how they are associated with federated trusts.

The Role of Claims

The Role of Claim Rules

Review concepts about how a claim flows through all the stages in the claims issuance pipeline and how rules are processed by the claims issuance engine.

The Role of the Claims Pipeline

The Role of the Claims Engine

To effectively plan and implement the output claims that will be issued over this relying party trust, determine whether one or more claim rules are needed and which claim rules you should use with this relying party trust.

Determine the Type of Claim Rule Template to Use

Review concepts about when to create one claim rule over another and how you can use the claim rule language to provide more complex logic than standard rules in order to provide a desired result in the ideal output claim set.

When to Use a Pass Through or Filter Claim Rule

When to Use a Transform Claim Rule

When to Use a Send LDAP Attributes as Claims Rule

When to Use a Send Group Membership as a Claim Rule

When to Use an Authorization Claim Rule

When to Use a Custom Claim Rule

The Role of the Claim Rule Language

A claim description must be created if one does not already exist that will fulfill the needs of your organization. AD FS 2.0 ships with a default set of claim descriptions that are exposed in the AD FS 2.0 Management snap-in.

Add a Claim Description

Depending on the needs of your organization, create one or more claim rules for the rule sets that are associated with this relying party trust so that claims will be issued appropriately.

Create a Rule to Pass Through or Filter an Incoming Claim

Create a Rule to Send LDAP Attributes as Claims

Create a Rule to Send Group Membership as a Claim

Create a Rule to Transform an Incoming Claim

Create a Rule to Send an Authentication Method Claim

Create a Rule to Send an AD FS 1.x Compatible Claim

Create a Rule to Send Claims Using a Custom Rule

Depending on the needs of your organization, create one or more claim rules for either the issuance authorization rules set or the delegation authorization rules set that is associated with this relying party trust so that users will be permitted access to the relying party.

Create a Rule to Permit All Users

Create a Rule to Permit or Deny Users Based on an Incoming Claim