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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

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By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for Information Technology professionals looking to improve their knowledge about MS Windows Active Directory Domain Service. The book will help you to use identity elements effectively and manage your organization’s infrastructure in a secure and efficient way. This third edition has been fully updated to reflect the importance of cloud-based strong authentication and other tactics to protect identity infrastructure from emerging security threats. Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition provides extensive coverage of AD Domain Services and helps you explore their capabilities as you update to Windows Server 2022. This book will also teach you how to extend on-premises identity presence to cloud via Azure AD hybrid setup. By the end of this Microsoft Active Directory book, you’ll feel confident in your ability to design, plan, deploy, protect, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Group Policy capabilities

Group Policy can be used to perform many different tasks in an infrastructure. Here, I have listed some of these capabilities:

  • Group Policy can be linked to sites, domains, and organization units. This allows us to match the Group Policy requirements with the Active Directory structure. However, Group policies cannot be applied to default containers in Active Directory.
  • Group Policy allows us to use security filtering to target specific groups, users, or computers.
  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters are capable of filtering the AD objects based on criteria such as the OS version, roles, and system configuration. Group Policy allows us to use WMI filters for targeting.
  • The Group Policy Object (GPO) status can change based on operational requirements. If required, group policies can disable group policies completely, or disable user or computer settings individually.
  • Group Policy management tasks can be delegated...