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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

Designing a Hybrid Identity

There are many reasons why organizations are looking to extend their on-premises AD to Azure AD. Let's look into some of those reasons:

  • Using cloud applications (SaaS): Organizations use different types of applications for their operations (on-premises). Standalone applications are easy to manage and maintain, but some applications have dependencies. Some require lots of resources. SAP solution is one great example. If it's on premises, it needs different components, such as database servers, application servers, GUI severs, and so on, since all of these components depend on each other. If any of the components fail, the whole application fails too. Therefore, you need to plan for high availability on top of that. Now, more and more vendors are taking away this burden from customers and offer cloud versions of applications instead of on-premises...