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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

This is the end of another Active Directory infrastructure design chapter that was focused on FSMO role placements. FSMO roles are designated to do specific tasks in an Active Directory infrastructure in order to maintain integrity. In this chapter, you learned about FSMO roles and their responsibilities. Then, we moved on to FSMO role placement in the infrastructure, where you learned about techniques and best practices that need to be followed in order to maintain the best performance and availability. After that, we looked at how to transfer the FSMO roles from one domain controller to another using PowerShell, followed by a guide for seizing FSMO roles in the event of a disaster where you cannot recover the original FSMO role holder.

In the next chapter, we will look at actual Active Directory deployment scenarios and explore how to migrate from older versions of Active...