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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 FS deployment

In this section, we are going to look into AD FS deployment using a single federation server and a single Web Application Proxy server model. Before we move on to configuration, we need to sort out the following prerequisites:

  • DNS records
  • SSL certificates

Apart from that, we also need certain NAT and access rules in the firewall. But here, I am not going to talk about those in detail as I covered those when I explained the topologies in the previous section.

DNS records

We need to have a few DNS records (internal and external) set up prior to starting the deployment:

DNS Record

External

Internal

Application URL

Yes

Yes

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