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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

Enabling secure LDAP (LDAPS) for an Azure AD DS managed domain

In an on-prem AD environment, there can be applications or services that require integration with AD. With AD integration, the application can search for AD users, allow login, assign permissions, etc. This integration part is usually done using LDAP. By default, traffic over LDAP is not encrypted. Due to the vulnerabilities, Microsoft now recommends only using secure LDAP (LDAPS, LDAP over SSL) connections to DCs. In Chapter 15, I have demonstrated how we enable secure LDAP access with an on-prem DC. Azure AD DS also supports secure LDAP connections. Most of the time the LDAP connection to Azure AD DS will be initiated over the public internet. So, it is important to have encryption in place to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

In this section, I am going to demonstrate how to enable secure LDAP for Azure AD DS. Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites in place:

  1. A valid Azure subscription...