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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

Microsoft Graph Explorer

Graph Explorer is a Microsoft-developed tool that allows you to make Microsoft Graph REST API requests. This tool can be accessed using https://bit.ly/3l6EF8m.

The first thing we need to do on the page is to log in. Then we need to grant permissions to Microsoft Graph to access data. To do that, go to the Modify permissions (Preview) tab and give consent to grant relevant permissions.

Figure 17.16: Grant permissions to user

After relevant permissions are in place, we can go ahead and query data using Microsoft Graph Explorer. Let's go ahead and start with a user query.

In this example, I would like to view the account details of the [email protected] user. To do that, I am going to use the GET HTTP method and the https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/[email protected] query.

Figure 17.17: User query

Then Microsoft Graph responds to the query with the following data:

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