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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

Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)

RSoP uses the attribute value of msDS-PasswordSettingsPrecedence, which is associated with each password policy, to decide the winning policy. A precedence value is an integer value an administrator can define. A lower precedence value means higher priority. If multiple password policies are applied to the same object, the password policy with the lower precedence value wins.

The following list further explains how password policies work in an infrastructure:

  • There are two ways to link an object to a password policy. The first method is via a directly linked policy. The second method is via group membership. If the policy targets a security group, its members will automatically link to the password policy. However, if a fine-grained password policy is linked to an object, it will be the winning policy.
  • If there's no directly linked policy, the object will consider the lowest policy precedence. These policies are inherited from...