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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

Group Policy best practices

In Sri Lanka, there is a common saying for explaining risky action: eating curd from a knife. Curd with honey is amazing, but if you have to eat it using a sharpened knife, there is a risk that you may cut your tongue. But it's still worth taking the risk (if you have ever tasted curd and honey before). Group policies are also like that; they can do so many useful things, but only if you use them correctly. In the Active Directory environment, Group Policy-related issues are the most painful and time-consuming troubleshooting tasks as there are so many things that can go wrong.

Here, I have listed a few tips that will be useful for designing group policies:

  • Identify the best place to link the Group Policy: The Group Policy can be linked to the site, domain, or OU. Organizations have different Group Policy requirements that can also map with the aforementioned components. It is important to understand the best place in the hierarchy to...