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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

The features of AD DS 2022

AD DS's improvements are found in its forest and domain functional levels. Upgrading the operating system or adding domain controllers that run Windows Server 2022 to an existing AD infrastructure isn't going to upgrade the forest and domain functional levels automatically. We need to upgrade them manually once all older domain controllers are decommissioned. When it comes to forest and domain functional levels, there is a big difference in Windows Server 2022. Up to the Windows Server 2016 release, there have been new forest and domain functional levels. But starting from Windows Server 2019 there are NO new forest or domain functional levels.

The most recent forest and domain functional levels we can choose are still from Windows Server 2016. But what does this mean? If the improvements are bound to forest and domain functional levels, does this mean there are no new features on AD DS 2022? Yes, that's correct: there are no new AD DS...