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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
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Section 4: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

Active Directory Federation Services

The days of castles are gone now; we no longer live in a small world. We live in a society where everyone is connected. In cities, we no longer see walls like in the castles from before. This well-connected society provides a lot of benefits to human beings, but it's not the only outcome. Great and strong cities in a connected society can also be vulnerable from time to time.

Modern business operation boundaries are also no longer in a closed or isolated mode. As an example, from on-premises applications, organizations are moving into cloud-based versions. Computer workloads are moving to public or hybrid cloud infrastructures.

In an Active Directory (AD) environment, most of the systems or applications can be integrated with it, and they use one username and password to access systems (single sign-on (SSO)). When we extend the identity...