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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

General commands

We can start by listing all the available commands under the Azure AD module, which can be done by using the following:

Get-Command -module AzureAD

We can view the full syntax for a command by using the Get-Help command. As an example, we can view the full syntax for the Get-AzureADUser command using the following:

Get-Help Get-AzureADUser

We can verify the status of Azure AD domains using the following command:

Get-AzureADDomain | fl

The preceding command helps to identify the domain verification status by referring to the value of the IsVerified attribute.

If you are using a custom domain in Azure AD, we need to verify ownership of the domain using DNS records. If it is not verified, we can retrieve the required DNS records by using the following command:

Get-AzureADDomainVerificationDnsRecord -Name M365x562652.onmicrosoft.com | fl

In the preceding example, M365x562652.onmicrosoft.com represents the domain name:

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