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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

Replication

Data replication is crucial for a healthy Active Directory environment. For a given domain controller, we can find its inbound replication partners using this:

Get-ADReplicationPartnerMetadata -Target REBEL-SRV01.rebeladmin.com

The preceding command provides a detailed description of the replication health of the given domain controller, including the last successful replication, replication partition, server, and so on.

We can list all the inbound replication partners for the given domain using the following command:

Get-ADReplicationPartnerMetadata -Target "rebeladmin.com" -Scope Domain

In the preceding command, the scope is defined as the domain. This can be changed to the forest to get a list of the inbound partners in the forest. The output is based on the default partition. If needed, the partition can be changed using –Partition to a configuration or schema partition. It will list the relevant inbound partners for the selected...