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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

Delegating permissions

The Kerberos protocol itself was built to prevent identity compromise. This is all good on paper, but in reality, attackers use many different methods and tools to attack AD environments. Therefore, it is important to know the features, techniques, and tools that we can use to protect AD environments further.

In an AD environment, there are different types of management tasks. Managing domain controllers, adding, modifying, and removing users, adding, managing, and removing groups, resetting passwords, and adding devices to a domain are just some examples. In a structured IT department, these management tasks can be assigned to different job roles.

As an example, let's assume that Rebeladmin Corp.'s IT department has first-line (first support contact), second-line (intermediate), and third-line (senior) IT teams. When considering the AD management tasks, first-line engineers are usually involved with tasks such as user password resets, setting...