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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

Sites

Sites can be explained as physical locations that contain various AD objects. We should be able to describe these objects using their boundaries. As an example, users, computers, and network devices located in an office location in London can be treated as a site, and these can be identified as unique from similar objects located in the Seattle office. The AD site topology can be divided into four different designs:

  • Single domain-single site: This is the most common setup for small- and medium-sized businesses. In this setup, there is one site and one domain. When we set up the first domain controller in the infrastructure, it is set up as a single domain-single site by default. This is easy to maintain.
  • Single domain-multiple sites: In this setup, the infrastructure has only one domain, and it's extended to multiple sites. These sites can be different buildings on the same campus or different geographical locations. Sites are interconnected using physical...