A legacy Windows Server role for publishing applications via AD FS; Microsoft Entra application proxy is a different thing.
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Terms in this definition
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- AD FS
Short for Active Directory Federation Services, a federation server hosted on-premises. Its older publishing role, Web Application Proxy, is a separate thing from Microsoft Entra application proxy.
- Microsoft Entra application proxy
Makes on-premises web applications reachable from outside using a connector that only makes outbound connections, so neither a VPN nor open inbound ports are required.