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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

Active Directory Services – Part 02

During the COVID-19 pandemic, lots of businesses have started to collaborate with each other. Sometimes these businesses have had to share resources among them. For example, one company may want to access an Active Directory integrated web application of another company. In such a scenario, how can we grant access to the application with minimal effect? An Active Directory trust allows you to connect two different Active Directory domains/forests together and allows users to share resources among them. In this chapter, we will look into Active Directory trusts in detail.

In an Active Directory environment, each and every domain controller holds sensitive information about identities. Therefore, the security of domain controllers is crucial. With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced read-only domain controllers (RODCs), which are ideal for sites where we can't guarantee physical security. In this chapter, we will learn about...