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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

Replicating a specific object

Once an object is added to a domain controller, it needs to be replicated to all other domain controllers. Otherwise, users will face issues during login using AD-integrated applications and services. The replication is dependent on many different factors, such as the replication schedule and intra-site connectivity. Sometimes, we need to force the replication between domain controllers:

## Replicate Object to From Domain Controller to Another ## 
$myobject = Read-Host 'What is your AD Object Includes ?' 
$sourcedc = Read-Host 'What is the Source DC ?' 
$destinationdc = Read-Host 'What is the Destination DC ?' 
$passobject = (Get-ADObject -Filter {Name -Like $myobject}) 
Sync-ADObject -object $passobject -source $sourcedc -destination $destinationdc 
Write-Host "Given Object Replicated to" $destinationdc

The preceding script will ask a few questions:

  • Name of object: This need not be a distinguished...