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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
18
Section 4: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

Summary

Design, implementation, and maintenance are key stages for any successful service deployment. In this chapter, we learned how to design the Active Directory infrastructure according to industry standards and best practices. The Active Directory infrastructure has two types of components: logical and physical. In this chapter, we learned about the design and placement of both types. As part of the design exercise, we also learned how to gather business data, how to identify risks, and how to do sizing.

We also looked into the designing process of Hybrid Identity. Here, we learned why Hybrid Identity is important and what we need to consider during the design phase. We also learned how we can gather required information from businesses using questionnaires.

In the next chapter, we are going to look into the DNS, which is the naming system for infrastructures.

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