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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

Applications and Services Logs

The Application and Services Logs category was introduced after Windows Server 2008. This stores the events related to applications and their components. Most of the events listed here are more suited for application developers doing debugging and application-level troubleshooting.

This category has four log types:

  • Admin: Events listed in this log are understandable by end users and IT professionals. This information can be used for basic application troubleshooting. Most of these log entries will include instructions or links to knowledge base articles from the application vendor to find out more about the given issue or to fix it.
  • Operational: Operational events include information about configuration or status changes of an application/service. These events are useful for application diagnosis.
  • Analytic: This log is hidden and disabled by default. This is usually only enabled during the application or service diagnosis process...