Using W2k12 ADFS 3.0 with Windows 2008 R2 Directory Services

[ranj]

Hi All

 

My company are looking to implement an internet facing deployment (IFD) with CRM Dynamics 2013 on premise.

 

From my research I understand that a pre req is having ADFS setup within the domain.

 

As we use Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory domain services, am I best using ADFS 2.0 or could we use ADFS 3.0 (based on Windows 2012 R2) if I built a separate server just for ADFS and then integrate this within our existing 2008 R2 AD environment?

 

Our intention for using IFD maybe different from the usual cases. We need to use IFD to be able to talk to a cloud based solution. At the moment we don't have a requirement for external users accessing CRM or any other application on the intranet however I am aware in the near future we are planning on making our SharePoint available to the outside world. Currently this is achieved using a VPN connection and my understanding is SharePoint also utilizes ADFS.

 

Any advice on this would be most appreciated.

Thanks