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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)

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "For my application, I have created metadata file under https://myapp.rebeladmin.com/myapp/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml."

A block of code is set as follows:

      xJeaEndPoint Demo3EP
{
Name = 'Demo3EP'
ToolKit = 'FileSystem'
Ensure = 'Present'
DependsOn = '[xJeaToolKit]FileSystem'
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

      xJeaEndPoint Demo3EP
{
Name = 'Demo3EP'
ToolKit = 'FileSystem'
Ensure = 'Present'
DependsOn = '[xJeaToolKit]FileSystem'
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Enter-PSSession –ComputerName localhost –ConfigurationName demo2ep

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Afterwards, in the Security tab, select First Line Engineers and click on Advanced."

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.