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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

Creating authentication policies

Before we create policies, we need to enable DAC support for domain controllers and devices. DAC allows administrators to apply access control permissions and restrictions based on rules that can include the characteristics of the resources.

To enable DAC for domain controllers, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the Group Policy Management MMC.
  2. Edit Default Domain Controllers Policy.
  3. Go to Computer Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | System | KDC.
  4. Click on Enabled to enable KDC support for claims, compound authentication, and Kerberos armoring.
  5. Under Options, select Always provide claims and click on OK. This will ensure that it always returns claims for accounts and supports the RFC behavior to advertise Flexible Authentication Secure Tunneling (FAST):

Figure 16.21: Enabling KDC support for claims, compound authentication, and Kerberos armoring policy setting

To enable DAC...