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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

Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

In the previous chapter, we learned about Active Directory (AD) object types and how we can add, edit, and remove them. We also learned about the different management tools that help us to do these tasks. Last but not least, we learned how we can locate Active Directory objects or the value of an attribute when required. In this chapter, we are going to further explore Active Directory objects and attributes.

The characteristics of an Active Directory object are described using attributes. Some of these attributes are common across different types of objects and some are unique. If required, we can also add our own attributes to an object. In this chapter, you will learn about object attributes and how we can manage them. You will also learn how to add custom attributes. If an organization is using custom attributes in a hybrid environment, it is possible that custom attributes will also need to sync to Azure AD. In this chapter, I will demonstrate...