After enabling AD Federation Service (ADFS) you are being refered to your internal domain

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After entering your federated domain account in a browser, are you being redirected to your internal domain name (e.g. adfs.contoso.local) instead of public domain name (e.g. adfs.publicdomain.com)?

  • RDP to your ADFS server
  • Install and open the Windows Azure Active Directory Powershell, for more details see this blog post
  • Execute “Get-MsolFederationProperty –DomainName” with your external domain name e.g. “adfs.myexternaldomain.com”
     

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-MsolFederationProperty -DomainName adfs.myexternaldomain.com

Source : ADFS Server
ActiveClientSignInUrl : https://adfs.contoso.local/adfs/services/trust/2005/usernamemixed
FederationServiceDisplayName : Contoso Corporation
FederationServiceIdentifier : https://adfs.contoso.local/adfs/services/trust
FederationMetadataUrl : https://adfs.contoso.local/adfs/services/trust/mex
PassiveClientSignInUrl : https://adfs.contoso.local/adfs/ls/
PassiveClientSignOutUrl : https://adfs.contoso.local/adfs/ls/    

  <more stuff here, not listed>

  

  • The output above is likely to be listing output referencing to your local (internal) domain name.
  • Open AD FS management, go to “Edit Federation Service Properties”

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  • Change the references from the internal domain name to the public domain names.
    • If this is already the correct information, continue with the following steps anyway.
  • Hit OK and close AD FS management
  • In the PowerShell window, execute a Update-MsolFederatedDomain –domainname “adfs.myexternaldomain.com”

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Check by using “Get-MsolFederationProperty -DomainName adfs.myexternaldomain.com” or your browser to see if you are being redirected to the correct URL this time.

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