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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 the OU structure

Similar to any other Active Directory object, the OU structure can be managed using Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC), ADUC MMC, and PowerShell. In this section, I am going to demonstrate how to manage the OU structure using PowerShell.

Let's start this with a new OU. We can use the New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet to create a new OU. The complete syntax can be reviewed using the following command:

Get-Command New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Syntax

As the first step, I am going to create a new OU called Asia to represent the Asia branch:

New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name "Asia" -Description "Asia Branch"

In the preceding command, -Description defines the description for the new OU. When there is no path defined, it will create the OU under the root. We can review the details of the new OU using the following command:

Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Identity "OU=Asia,DC=rebeladmin,DC=com"

We can...