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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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Modifying AD objects

When we create objects, we define values for attributes. After we've created the objects, there may be situations where we need to edit the values of those attributes or add values to empty attributes.

We can use the Set-ADUser cmdlet to change and add attribute values to existing AD user objects:

Set-ADUser tidris -OfficePhone "0912291120" -City "London"

In the preceding sample command, we're adding values for the -OfficePhone and -City attributes for the tidris user.

There are occasions where you may need to change the existing value of an attribute:

Set-ADUser tidris -OfficePhone "0112291120"

In the preceding command, I'm replacing an existing value with a new one.

In the aforementioned commands, I defined the exact user account, but it's not practical if you need to do this for a large number of accounts. To do that, we need to combine the Set-ADUser cmdlet with the Get-ADuser...

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