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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

Review the membership of the high-level administrative groups

As a security best practice, it is important to limit the number of privileged accounts used in an Active Directory environment. Sometimes we add users to privileged groups temporarily to do certain tasks and then forget to remove the permissions later on. Therefore, it is important to review members of the sensitive groups periodically and update those as required. In Active Directory, the following security groups are identified as sensitive groups:

  • Enterprise Admins
  • Schema Admins
  • Domain Admins
  • Account Operators (if present)
  • Server Operators (if present)
  • Print Operators (if present)
  • DHCP Administrators
  • DNSAdmins

To review the membership of a sensitive group we can use the following command:

Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "Domain Admins"

In the preceding command, Domain Admins is the group name and it can be replaced with any other sensitive...