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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

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

How does AD FS work?

Rebeladmin Inc. is an IT service provider. There are many customers who use different IT and cloud-based services from the company. Recently, the company introduced a new web-based control panel where customers can log in and manage their resources. The same application is also used by internal staff to manage infrastructure services. Rebeladmin Inc. uses Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to manage identities. When a member of internal IT staff logs in to the portal, it doesn't ask for any login details. This is because the web application uses Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) to allow access.

This process is also called NTLM authentication or domain authentication. It doesn't prompt for the login information initially, or transfer hashed data about the currently logged-in user to the web server to check whether it's allowed. This web server is domain joined and the application itself is Active Directory-integrated. Now, users...