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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

Summary

Data protection is crucial in modern infrastructures, as more and more analogue data is being transformed into digital data. There are different laws, products, technologies, and methodologies to improve data protection in infrastructures. AD RMS is Microsoft's solution, which can be used to manage the operational behavior of confidential data in an infrastructure.

In this chapter, we learned about AD RMS and its related characteristics. Then, we moved on to understanding how AD RMS works, and how it protects data. After that, we looked at different AD RMS deployment topologies. Last but not least, we worked on AD RMS installation, configuration, and testing.

This ends the third part of this book. The fourth part of the book is going to start with a chapter that is focused on Active Directory security best practices.