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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

Limitations

Fine-grained password policies have the following limitations:

  • Fine-grained password policies can only be applied to users and global security groups. They can't be applied to OUs.
  • By default, only domain admins/enterprise admins can set up/manage/delete fine-grained password policies. It is possible to delegate permission to other users if required.
  • The minimum domain functional level is Windows Server 2008.

When you use fine-grained password policies, some objects may have multiple fine-grained password policies applied. However, only one password policy can be applied to an object at a given time. It is not possible to merge multiple policies either. So how do we know what is the winning policy? Or how can we enforce a policy? Let's find out the answers in the next section.