About the Well-Known URL for ADFS
About the Well-Known URL for ADFS

About the Well-Known URL for ADFS

The Well-Known URL concept was created to provide a publicly available central location for server and metadata resources. It provides publicly available information about a site.
A Well-Known URL defines a sign-in flow that enables a client application to authenticate a user and to obtain information (or claims) about that user, such as the user name, email, and so on. It is useful to identify URLs, encryption schemes, and other information useful in establishing server-to-server communications.
Customers may know their Well-Known URL. The construction of the Well-Known URL is typically
https://<server_DNS>/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
, although there can be differences.