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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

Installation

The Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module comes in two versions. The public preview version is the most recent, but it is not recommended for use in production.

The installation steps for this version can be found at https://bit.ly/3HR3EpU.

The general availability version is the stable, recommended version for production environments. It can be installed on any computer that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 or above with the latest updates. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 or above is also required.

Once the prerequisites are in place, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to the computer you have selected for the Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module.
  2. Launch the PowerShell console as an administrator.
  3. Run the Install-Module -Name AzureAD command. Answer Yes if it is a required repository update:

    Figure 17.10: Install AzureAD PowerShell module

  4. After installation, we can verify the module installation...