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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

Active Directory Backup and Recovery

Active Directory domain controllers are the main components responsible for the organization's identity infrastructure. Failure of the domain controllers or the services will impact the entire identity infrastructure. Therefore, as with any other critical system of a business, the Active Directory server's high availability is crucial. There are two types of disasters related to Active Directory domain controllers that can occur.

The first type of disaster is when there is a complete system crash due to faulty hardware. Apart from the Active Directory backup, maintaining multiple domain controllers helps organizations to recover from such situations. If it's not the flexible single master operation (FSMO) role holder, we can forcefully remove the crashed domain controller's related records and introduce a new domain controller. If it's the FSMO role holder, we can seize the FSMO roles and make them available from any...