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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

Configuration

In this section, we are going to look at Azure AD Connect Health in action. In my demonstration environment, I have the latest version of Azure AD Connect installed.

Azure AD Connect Health (sync) comes as a part of it, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 19.20: Azure AD Connect health services

But I'd like to install Azure AD Connect Health Agent for AD DS to gather additional insights from my on-prem AD environment. In order to do that, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to the target computer as the Domain Admin/Enterprise Admin.
  2. Go to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com and log in as a global administrator.
  3. Then go to Azure Active Directory | Azure AD Connect and click on Azure AD Connect Health, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 19.21: Azure AD Connect Health access

  4. In the new window, click on Download Azure AD Connect Health Agent for AD DS, as shown in the following...