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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

Managing users

We can view the user account details for a known account using the following:

Get-AzureADUser -ObjectId [email protected] | fl

In the preceding command, [email protected] represents the UPN of the user.

We also can use user attributes to find user account details:

Get-AzureADUser -Filter "startswith(GivenName,'Adele')"

The preceding command will filter Azure AD users with GivenName as Adele.

We can also filter users based on a specific attribute value:

Get-AzureADUser -Filter "GivenName eq 'Adele'"

The preceding command will search for the exact user with the given name value Adele.

In my demo environment, I'd like to see a list of disabled accounts. I can do this using the following command:

Get-AzureADUser -All $true -Filter 'accountEnabled eq false'

We can modify the output of the filtered data further:

Get-AzureADUser -All...