Active Directory Federation Service

The Active Directory Federation Service is operated by the IT Services as the federation infrastructure of ETH Zurich. The Active Directory Federation Service manages the various federation trusts with internal/external service providers.

For user identification and authentication, the Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) uses the Active Directory (AD). Users are authenticated towards third-party systems using the usernames and passwords stored in the Active Directory.

With the Active Directory Federation Service, customers can authenticate themselves to external services such as cloud services (Azure/Zoom/GSuite etc.) via the Active Directory. This allows ETHZ accounts to be used for logging into the services. It also ensures compliance with ETH IT security policies.

Active Directory Federation Services supports SAML / O-Auth and MFA.

The Active Directory Federation Service is available free of charge for all ETH organisational units.

For ordering, please submit a ticket to the Service Desk.