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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

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By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for Information Technology professionals looking to improve their knowledge about MS Windows Active Directory Domain Service. The book will help you to use identity elements effectively and manage your organization’s infrastructure in a secure and efficient way. This third edition has been fully updated to reflect the importance of cloud-based strong authentication and other tactics to protect identity infrastructure from emerging security threats. Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition provides extensive coverage of AD Domain Services and helps you explore their capabilities as you update to Windows Server 2022. This book will also teach you how to extend on-premises identity presence to cloud via Azure AD hybrid setup. By the end of this Microsoft Active Directory book, you’ll feel confident in your ability to design, plan, deploy, protect, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Active Directory Fundamentals

"Despite all this rapid change in the computing industry, we are still at the beginning of the digital revolution."

- Satya Nadella

It has been two years since the release of the second edition of this book, Mastering Active Directory. First of all, I would like to thank all my readers for their valuable feedback, which encouraged me to write this third edition. I am sure that you will all benefit from the additional content that has been added to this new edition.

We are going to start this book by refreshing our knowledge of the fundamentals of Windows Active Directory. The main topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Modern access management
  • The future of access management
  • The role of Active Directory in hybrid identity
  • Benefits of using Active Directory
  • Understanding Active Directory components
  • Understanding Active Directory objects

To start with, let's talk about how the pandemic and other factors have shaped modern access management.