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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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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

Group Policy objects

When new Active Directory objects are added, the system saves the object data inside the Active Directory database. However, the way GPO is stored is different from the typical Active Directory object. GPO contents are stored in two locations (the Active Directory database and the SYSVOL folder) in the Active Directory environment.

The Group Policy container

As with any other object, the Active Directory database also holds GPO information. This information is more related to system settings and the path reference for the other dataset. When a GPO is created, as with any other Active Directory object, it will also have the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) value. This is important as this value is used by both datasets to refer to each other. This value is used in the Common Name (CN), too. Before we look into datasets, we need to find the GUID value for the GPO. This can be done using the following command:

Get-GPO -name "Test Users"
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