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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

AD CS components

AD CS is a collection of role services, and they can be used to design the PKI for your organization. Let's look into each of these role services and their capabilities.

The CA

CA role service is responsible for issuing, storing, managing, and revoking certificates. The PKI setup can have multiple CAs. There are two main types of CAs:

  • The root CA: The root CA is the most trusted CA in the PKI setup. A compromised root CA will compromise an entire PKI. Therefore, the security of the root CA is crucial. Best practice is to bring the root CA online only when required. By considering the security and hierarchy of the PKI, it is recommended to use the root CA only to issue certificates to subordinate CAs.
  • Subordinate CAs: In PKI, subordinate CAs are responsible for issuing, storing, managing, and revoking certificates for users, devices, or services. Once a CA receives a certificate request, it will process it and issue the certificate. A...