Active Directory is an administration system for Windows administrators to automate network, security, and access management tasks in Microsoft-oriented networking infrastructures. Bundled with Microsoft's cloud-based Azure Active Directory (AD) service, it offers a comprehensive Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution to organizations that want to manage on-premises and cloud-based resources.
Active Directory Administration Cookbook
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Overview of this book
Active Directory is an administration system for Windows administrators to automate network, security and access management tasks in the Windows infrastructure.
This book starts off with a detailed focus on forests, domains, trusts, schemas and partitions. Next, you'll learn how to manage domain controllers, organizational units and the default containers.
Going forward, you'll explore managing Active Directory sites as well as identifying and solving replication problems. The next set of chapters covers the different components of Active Directory and discusses the management of users, groups and computers. You'll also work through recipes that help you manage your Active Directory domains, manage user and group objects and computer accounts, expiring group memberships and group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) with PowerShell.
You'll understand how to work with Group Policy and how to get the most out of it. The last set of chapters covers federation, security and monitoring. You will also learn about Azure Active Directory and how to integrate on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD. You'll discover how Azure AD Connect synchronization works, which will help you manage Azure AD.
By the end of the book, you have learned about Active Directory and Azure AD in detail.
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Active Directory Administration Cookbook
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts
Managing Domain Controllers
Managing Active Directory Roles and Features
Managing Containers and Organizational Units
Managing Active Directory Sites and Troubleshooting Replication
Managing Active Directory Users
Managing Active Directory Groups
Managing Active Directory Computers
Getting the Most Out of Group Policy
Securing Active Directory
Managing Federation
Handling Authentication in a Hybrid World (AD FS, PHS, PTA, and 3SO)
Handling Synchronization in a Hybrid World (Azure AD Connect)
Hardening Azure AD
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