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Mastering Active Directory. - Second Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Mastering Active Directory. - Second Edition

By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Active Directory (AD) is a centralized and standardized system that automates networked management of user data, security, and distributed resources and enables inter-operation with other directories. This book will first help you brush up on the AD architecture and fundamentals, before guiding you through core components, such as sites, trust relationships, objects, and attributes. You will then explore AD schemas, LDAP, RMS, and security best practices to understand objects and components and how they can be used effectively. Next, the book will provide extensive coverage of AD Domain Services and Federation Services for Windows Server 2016, and help you explore their new features. Furthermore, you will learn to manage your identity infrastructure for a hybrid cloud setup. All this will help you design, plan, deploy, manage operations, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure in a secure and effective manner. You’ll later discover Azure AD Module, and learn to automate administrative tasks using PowerShell cmdlets. All along, this updated second edition will cover content based on the latest version of Active Directory, PowerShell 5.1 and LDAP. By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed with best practices and troubleshooting techniques for improving security and performance in identity infrastructures.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Active Directory Planning, Design, and Installation
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Section 2: Active Directory Administration
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Section 3: Active Directory Service Management
18
Section 4: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

AD backup and recovery

AD domain controllers are the main components responsible for the organization's identity infrastructure. Failure of the domain controllers or the services will impact the entire identity infrastructure. Therefore, as with any other critical system, the AD server's high availability is crucial. There are two types of disasters related to AD domain controllers that can occur.

The first type of disaster is when there is a complete system crash due to faulty hardware. Apart from the AD backup, maintaining multiple domain controllers helps organizations to recover from such situations easily without a backup restore. If it's not the flexible single master operation (FSMO) role holder, we can forcefully remove the crashed domain controller's related records and introduce a new domain controller. If it's the FSMO role holder, we can seize...