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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

Benefits of group policies

A Group Policy has two types of settings: computer settings and user settings. Depending on the business and operation requirements, we will have to use both types of settings in policies. Let's go ahead and review what benefits group polices can deliver to a business.

Maintaining standards

I assume most of you have heard of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards. They allow organizations to run their operations in line with industry standards. Once an organization is complying with a relevant ISO standard, in return, a certification will be issued to prove the organization's commitment. Even though organizations have passed the ISO certification, the relevant authority will perform a yearly evaluation to make sure that they are maintaining standards continuously. Most companies follow these standards throughout the year, but for some, they come to attention only when the evaluation is due. This is because the implementation...