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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

Identifying business needs

If I go to the Auto Trader website and just search for a car, I'll receive more than 400,000 results. It would be impossible to go through all of those to find the car I have in mind. But if I, say, want a BMW 4 series, automatic, 2020 build, it is very easy to find the one I need. As long as we express our requirements correctly and as long as the supplier captures them correctly, we will get the solution we are looking for.

Business needs in organizations come in different forms. They can be in the form of operation improvements, strategy changes, or compliance/security requirements. In order to provide the appropriate solution, we need to know the ins and outs of the requirement. This is the most challenging phase of the design process for engineers. This always starts with some sort of communication between engineers and the business owner, director, manager, or department head. Some of them may not be technical enough to explain what exactly...