Copy ADFS Claim Rules with Powershell

At my job we create a lot of ADFS relying party trusts for our Dev, QA and Lab Mircosoft CRM environments. It gets a bit tedious entering the claim rules over and over. I finally took the time to learn how to do this via powershell. And it is really simple.

Export ADFS Claim rules

First Export the claim rules fo a file from a working ADFS Relying Party Trust. All you need is the Issuance Transfor Rules.

   
Get-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust -name “Jeffb01 – External” | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IssuanceTransformRules | out-file c:\temp\claimrules.txt

Import ADFS Claim Rules

Once you have the rules stored in a text file, you can import them into your new relying party trust.

    
Set-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust -TargetName “portalQS – External’ -IssuanceTransformRulesFile c:\temp\claimrules.txt