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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
13
Section 3: Active Directory Service Management
18
Section 4: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

Sites

Sites can be explained as physical locations that contain various AD objects. We should be able to describe these objects using their boundaries. As an example, users, computers, and network devices located in an office location in London can be treated as a site, and these can be identified as unique from similar objects located in the Seattle office. The AD site topology can be divided into four different main designs:

  • Single domain-single sites: This is the most common setup for small- and medium-sized businesses. In this setup, there is one site and one domain. When we set up the first domain controller in the infrastructure, it is set up as a single domain-single site by default. This is easy to maintain.
  • Single domain-multiple sites: In this setup, the infrastructure has only one domain, and it's extended to multiple sites. It can be based on different buildings...