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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

Setting up an Azure AD managed domain

The next step of the configuration process is to set up an Azure AD managed domain:

  1. In order to do that, log in to the Azure portal (https://bit.ly/3oUVqo7) as Global Administrator.
  2. Go to All Services | Azure AD Domain Services.
  3. Click on Create Azure AD Domain Services:

    Figure 18.17: Initiating Azure AD DS setup

  4. This will open up a wizard. Type in a DNS domain name for the service. It is recommended that you use the default tenant domain name in the beginning as we can add a custom domain later on, if required. Also, select the resource group we created in the previous step. In here, we also need to select the SKU for the service.

    There are three levels of subscription for the service and you can find more details about these on https://bit.ly/3nLCc4Y. By default the forest type is set to User. If you need to, you can also set this up as a resource forest:

    Figure 18.18: Azure AD DS configuration...