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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

Enable secure LDAP (LDAPS)

The next step of the configuration process is to enable secure LDAP. To do that,

  1. Log in to the Azure portal (https://bit.ly/3oV9pKS) as Global Administrator.
  2. Then go to Azure AD Domain Services.
  3. Click on the Azure AD DS instance.
  4. It will open up the Azure AD DS settings page. On this page, click on Secure LDAP. It will open up a new window:
    Figure 18.42: Secure LDAP feature
  5. To enable secure LDAP, click on Enable under Secure LDAP. We also need to enable secure LDAP over the internet as in this demo I am going to access it via the public internet. To do that click on Enable under Allow secure LDAP access over the internet.

    We also need to upload the PFX file we created. We can do that under the option for uploading aPFX file with a secure LDAP certificate. Click on the file icon and select the PFX file. Under the Password to decrypt .PFX file option, type the password for the PFX file. Finally, click on Save...