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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 disaster recovery

Like any other computer system, CA also may face disasters due to operating system issues, hardware failures, and so on. Depending on the CA's role in the infrastructure, we can plan how to recover from such failure. There are certain things we need to consider when developing a disaster recovery plan for the CA.

  • Role of the CA: The importance of the CA in infrastructure has a major impact on the disaster recovery plan. If an organization is using certificates for day-to-day activities such as computer authentication and Wi-Fi connection, this means the CA's availability is crucial for carrying on operations.

    On the other hand, if the CA is only used to issue certificates for a few internal applications or systems that are renewed every few years, CA availability is not as crucial as in the first scenario.

    In the event of a disaster, even a redeployment of the CA may not have a huge impact. As we can see, the role of the CA will...