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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 the delegate control method in AD

The delegate control method also works similarly to ACLs, but it simplifies privilege management as it uses the following:

  • The Delegation of Control Wizard can be used to apply delegated permissions
  • A predefined task list is available via the wizard and we can easily map permissions to these tasks

This wizard contains the following predefined tasks, which can be used to assign permissions:

  • Create, delete, and manage user accounts
  • Reset user passwords and force a password to change at the next logon
  • Read all user information
  • Create, delete, and manage groups
  • Modify the membership of a group
  • Manage Group Policy links
  • Generate Resultant Set of Policy (Planning)
  • Generate Resultant Set of Policy (Logging)
  • Create, delete, and manage inetOrgPerson accounts
  • Reset inetOrgPerson passwords and force a password change at the next logon
  • Read all the inetOrgPerson...