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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

Syncing custom attributes to Azure AD

In the previous section, I explained how we can create custom Active Directory attributes. When we sync users from on-prem Active Directory to Azure AD by using Azure AD Connect, some of the attributes will also sync but not all. The complete list of attributes that will sync with Azure AD Connect is available at https://bit.ly/32lpFNn.

But sometimes, there can be business requirements to sync these custom Active Directory attributes to Azure AD. It could be to use them with cloud applications (SaaS) or to use them with a legacy Line-of-Business (LOB) application that is migrated to Azure. We can sync these custom attributes to Azure AD by using the Azure AD Connect "Directory extension attribute sync" feature.

In my demo environment, I am going to demonstrate how to sync a newly created custom Active Directory attribute (user class) to Azure AD. To simplify the process, I have already installed Azure AD Connect and configured...