Book Image

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
5 (2)
Book Image

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

5 (2)
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)
20
Other Books You May Enjoy
21
Index

Evaluating the present business requirements

There can be one or many reasons why a business is looking to extend their on-prem AD to Azure AD. The most common reasons can be as follows:

  • Use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications
  • Cloud migration
  • Features
  • Security

Let's go ahead and explore each of the above in detail:

  • Use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications: This is one of the most common reasons for an organization to start using the Azure AD hybrid model. With the maturity of the cloud, lots of software vendors started to move into the SaaS market. Most of these solutions are now available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

    Due to HA, less management, scalability, and cost, most organizations do not hesitate to move into SaaS applications. Every SaaS application requires authentication to handle access permissions. By extending on-prem AD to Azure AD, users are able to use their existing domain logins to...