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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

Certificate templates

Now we have a working PKI, and we can turn off the standalone root CA. It should only be brought online if the issuing CA certificates are expired or the PKI is compromised.

The CA comes with predefined certificate templates. These can be used to build custom certificate templates according to the organization's requirements and can be published to AD.

CA certificate templates are available under the Certificate Templates MMC. They can be accessed using Run | MMC | File | Add/Remove Snap-in... | Certificate Templates.

  1. To create a custom template, right-click on a template and click on Duplicate Template:

    Figure 13.22: Duplicate certificate template

  2. This will open up the Properties window, where you can change the settings of the certificate template to match the requirements. Some common settings to change in templates are listed here:
    • Template display name (the General tab): The display name of the template...