A practical guide to Active Directory Federation Services for a resilient Microsoft 365 ecosystem In our previous blog on how to monitor Microsoft 365 (M365), we delved into service overviews and the critical importance of synthetic user login monitoring. In this blog, we set our sights on a core component that forms the backbone of secure identity and access management: Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). As organizations increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, ensuring the robustness of identity and authentication mechanisms becomes paramount.

One of the most popular and widely adopted business tool suites is Microsoft 365 (previously known as Microsoft Office 365) or just M365 for short. M365 offers a comprehensive array of applications and services, including email, document collaboration, video conferencing, and more, all hosted on the cloud. M365 provides numerous benefits in terms of flexibility and accessibility, but it also introduces new security, performance, and compliance challenges. This is why monitoring M365 applications is critically important for organizations of all sizes.