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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 RMS components

AD RMS has its own role services and related components that need to work together in order to maintain a healthy AD RMS environment:

  • Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
  • The AD RMS cluster
  • Web server
  • SQL Server
  • The AD RMS client
  • Active Directory Certificate Service (AD CS)

Let's look into each of these components in detail.

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

AD RMS is one of the AD role services. AD RMS can be installed only in an AD DS environment. As a part of the setup, a service connection point (SCP) will need to be published via AD. It will help users to discover the service URLs for the AD RMS environment.

The AD RMS cluster

The AD RMS cluster is a single RMS server or a group of servers that share certificates and licensing requests from their clients. Even though it is named cluster, it is different from a typical Windows failover cluster. The failover cluster needs at least...