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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

The Group Policy template

When we looked at the Group Policy capabilities, we saw that policies can be used to publish applications, run start up/shutdown scripts, and more. From the Active Directory object's point of view, all of these policy settings are attributes and all scripts and files used in the policy need to be saved in a centralized location for processing. Instead of saving them in an Active Directory database, the system saves all of these policy-related files and settings in the SYSVOL folder. The default path for the Group Policy template (GPT) data is \\rebeladmin.com\SYSVOL\rebeladmin.com\Policies. Here, rebeladmin.com can be replaced with your domain's fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

Inside the policy folder, there are two subfolders called Machine and User. These folders contain files and settings related to the GPO's computer configuration and user configuration. There is another file called GPT.INI, which contains the version number of...