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Mastering Active Directory

Mastering Active Directory - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Mastering Active Directory

Mastering Active Directory

4.9 (22)
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.
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Reviewing events with PowerShell

We also can use PowerShell commands to review event logs or filter events from local and remote computers without any additional service configurations. Get-EventLog is the primary cmdlet we can use for this task, as shown in the following example:

Get-EventLog -List

The previous command will list the details about the log files in your local system, including the log file name, max log file size, and number of entries.

Get-EventLog -LogName 'Directory Service' | fl

The previous command will list all the events under the Directory Service log file. We can also limit the number of events we need to list. As an example, if we only need to list the latest 5 events from the Directory Service log file, we can use the following command:

Get-EventLog -Newest 5 -LogName 'Directory Service'

We can further filter it down by listing events according to entry type, as shown in the following example:

Get-EventLog...
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