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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

Setting up a PKI

Now we have finished the theory part of this chapter and are moving on to the deployment part. In this section, I am going to demonstrate how we can set up a PKI using the two-tier model. I have used this model as it is the most commonly used model for medium and large organizations:

Figure 13.14: Planned PKI setup

The preceding diagram explains the setup I am going to configure. Here, I have one domain controller, one standalone root CA, and one issuing CA. All are running with Windows Server 2022 with the latest updates.

Setting up a standalone root CA

The first step is to set up the standalone root CA. This is not a domain member server and is operating on the workgroup level. Configuring it on a separate VLAN will add additional security to the root CA.

Once the server is ready, log in to the server as a member of the local administrator group. The first task is to install the AD CS role service. This can be done using the following command...