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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

Authentication policies and authentication policy silos

The basic rule in PtH attack protection is to prevent trusted users from appearing on untrusted systems. Rebeladmin Corp. uses an MS SQL farm to run its databases. During the SQL Server setup, engineers use service accounts. It is obvious that these SQL service accounts should be used only with SQL Server. If the accounts appear on a receptionist's computer, something is definitely wrong. With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft introduced authentication policies and policy silos that can be used to limit the use of highly privileged accounts to selected systems.