ADFS Deployment Guide - Sneak Peek #1 (Checklists)

I'm going to provide occasional sneak peeks at ADFS documentation under development so that you have an opportunity to provide feedback about it. This week’s sneak peek comes from the upcoming ADFS Deployment Guide, which will use checklists to more quickly help route the reader to the correct task that they need to accomplish for a given scenario.

I believe that the checklist format used in this document will be crucial for directing the reader to the most appropriate content at the time they need it. As you know, ADFS is a complex technology involving three primary design scenarios, each of which involve many tasks and sub tasks (with a fair share of overlapping procedures across all of the scenarios). Because of this, the checklist becomes the focal point for the administrator, directing them to click on each of the links (to tasks) in chronological order.

In this way, the administrator can choose to read the entire set of conceptual and procedural topics as one story. Take a look at the graphic below, which will be included in the deployment guide to help introduce the checklist concept. If possible, take a minute to let me know your thoughts.