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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

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

Administrative templates

Group policies allow us to manage computer settings and user settings effectively. However, infrastructure operation requirements are changing frequently. As an example, this can be due to new application versions, new security requirements, new business policy requirements, and more. We know that group policies can be used to manage organization-wide settings, but not all of the requirements will be supported by default. By the time AD DS 2008 was released, it was not possible to have group policies that could manage settings in the Office 2016 application as it didn't exist.

So how can we manage new applications and new OS settings using group policies? Do we need to keep updating Active Directory? No, we don't. We can do this using administrative templates. Application vendors and developers can develop administrative templates and publish them via group policies to customize, manage, and optimize their products and services.

Administrative...