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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)
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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

Section 4: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

This section of the book will cover various areas in the Active Directory environment. Modern security threats are more focused on identities as they open up lots of potential opportunities for attackers. Therefore, the majority of the content in this section will focus on tools and methods that we can use to secure the Active Directory environment. Not only that, but we are also going to learn about services that we can use to protect identities and data in a hybrid AD environment.

In the first section of the book, we learned about the benefits of using a hybrid AD environment. In this section, we are going to take another step forward and learn about how to plan and implement a hybrid AD environment successfully.

The last chapters of this section will focus on steps that we need to implement in order to maintain a healthy Active...