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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

Designing the physical topology of Active Directory

Dos

Don'ts

Run domain controllers in different virtualized clusters in different data centers in order to avoid a single point of failure.

Don't save the Active Directory database and log files on virtual IDE disks. For durability, save them on a VHD that's attached to a virtual SCSI controller.

Virtual hard disks (VHDs) security is important as copied VHDs can map to a computer and read the data inside it. If someone unauthorized gains access to ntds.dit, it will expose the identities. We can use encryption services to do server-side disk encryption with customer-managed keys.

Disable time synchronization between...