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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

Using object ACLs

User or group access permissions to a shared folder are managed by the ACL. Similarly, we can define permissions to AD objects by using ACLs. This can be applied to individual objects or to the AD site/domain/Organizational Unit (OU), and then the same permissions can be forced onto lower-level objects.

As an example, I have a security group called First Line Engineers, and Liam is a member of this group. Liam is an engineer in the Europe office. In the AD environment, Liam should be allowed to add user objects under any sub-OU that is under the Europe OU. However, he should not be allowed to delete any objects that are under it. Let's see how we can do this using ACLs:

  1. Log in to the domain controller as a domain admin/enterprise admin.
  2. Review the group membership using the following command:
    Get-ADGroupMember "First Line Engineers"
    
  3. Go to Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), right-click on the Europe...