Windows 10: Upgrade OS for Windows Server 2019 and ADFS

Currently running a single Windows Server 2019 with ADFS.I would like to upgrade the OS to version 20121, which I assume ? would upgrade ADFS to version 4.Is it as "simple" as performing an in-place upgrade?I read several articles on upgrading an ADFS farm, which requires additional servers -

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Office 2019

Only supported on Win10. Sorry, 8.1 users, only 4 years old, gotta go.

Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...-to-office-and-windows-servicing-and-support/

Spoiler Office 2019
Last year at Ignite, we announced Office 2019 – the next perpetual version of Office that includes apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and Skype for Business) and servers (including Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business). Today we’re pleased to share the following updates:

• Office 2019 will ship in H2 of 2018. Previews of the new apps and servers will start shipping in the second quarter of 2018.
• Office 2019 apps will be supported on:
  • Any supported Windows 10 SAC release
  • Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2018
  • The next LTSC release of Windows Server
• The Office 2019 client apps will be released with Click-to-Run installation technology only. We will not provide MSI as a deployment methodology for Office 2019 clients. We will continue to provide MSI for Office Server products.

 

ADFS SAML setup

Hello,

I have questions regarding ADFS SAML configuration.

I have been charged with setting up ADFS SAML and connecting our system with clarity safetyzone.

I am using Using windows serv 2019 platform for the servers. I have created a test environment that has a domain controller, server with ADCS, and another server with ADFS. I have a certificate created within the ADCS server and I installed ADFS on the
respective server. I verified after installation of the role and configuring an adfs administrator that the adfs administrator can sign into the https://sts.contoso.com/adfs/ls/idpinitiatedsignon.aspx, I created a windows test account and logged into the
adfs server for testing purposes and when navigating to the https://sts.contoso.com/adfs/ls/ and attempting to sign in with that user, I get an error:

An error occurred
An error occurred. Contact your administrator for more information.
Error details
Activity ID: f68cc99a-b6e5-40dc-1a00-0080000000e5Error details: MSIS7065: There are no registered protocol handlers on path /adfs/ls/ to process the incoming request.Node name: 85253664-435b-4d04-8775-d4b96854cb12Error time: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:11:16 GMTCookie:
enabledUser agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36

I have everyone permitted for intranet access in the Access Control Policies.
Am i missing something? Once i can verify that a standard user can login, then i can move on to the step of setting up the appropriate claims/trusts.

Does anyone have experience with this and maybe even experience with the Clarity Safety Zone platform?

 

Recommendation: Load balancer for ADFS environment?

We want to put in ADFS for our current network to support about 30K authenticated users, currently to start off just for sharepoint application, but potentially will support other application/ users as well.

Looking for recommendation on whether we should go with virtual or hardware based Load Balancer, and
which vendor of LB that people tend to adopt for their ADFS and WAP servers? Imagine we'll need to get the LB that can support Layer 7

Here is how we are currently spec'ed out so far:

• 2 WAP servers (Win2016) sit behind a LB and all on DMZ
• 2 ADFS servers (Win2016) sit behind another LB and all on Internal network
• DC server is on Internal network as well

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Can anyone explain how the traffic/federation process goes (step by step) when user access the website from the internet (please include how request is being passed/redirect between webserver, WAP, ADFS, and DC servers)

Thanks!