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Mastering Active Directory

By : Dishan Francis
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Mastering Active Directory

By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Active Directory is a centralized and standardized system that automates networked management of user data, security, and distributed resources and enables interoperation with other directories. If you are aware of Active Directory basics and want to gain expertise in it, this book is perfect for you. We will quickly go through the architecture and fundamentals of Active Directory and then dive deep into the core components, such as forests, domains, sites, trust relationships, OU, objects, attributes, DNS, and replication. We will then move on to AD schemas, global catalogs, LDAP, RODC, RMS, certificate authorities, group policies, and security best practices, which will help you gain a better understanding of objects and components and how they can be used effectively. We will also cover AD Domain Services and Federation Services for Windows Server 2016 and all their new features. Last but not least, you will learn how to manage your identity infrastructure for a hybrid-cloud setup. All this will help you design, plan, deploy, manage operations on, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure in a secure, effective manner. Furthermore, I will guide you through automating administrative tasks using PowerShell cmdlets. Toward the end of the book, we will cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques that can be used to improve security and performance in an identity infrastructure.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Summary

Digital data protection has been important from the day the computer was invented. There are different laws, products, technologies, and methodologies to improve the data protection in infrastructures. AD RMS is Microsoft's solution, which can be used to control things users can do once they have access to confidential data.

In this chapter, you learned what AD RMS and its components are. Then, we moved on to understanding how AD RMS works and how it protects data. After that, we looked at different AD RMS deployment topologies and their characteristics. Last but not least, we worked on AD RMS installation, configuration, and testing.

This ends the third part of this book, and we are moving on to the last part. The fourth part of the book is to start with a chapter that is focused on Active Directory security best practices.

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