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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

Evaluating an organization's infrastructure road map

In the previous section, we talked about why an organization may use an Azure AD hybrid setup. Moving from an on-prem service to a cloud service is a big decision for an organization; therefore, if it is not planned properly from an early stage, it can be hard to change things after implementation. To provide any IT solution, as engineers, we should not only consider the current state of the requirement: we also need to know the upcoming changes or future plans for the company infrastructure as it may have an impact on the solution that we have in mind. This is important as it helps engineers to provide future-proof solutions.

RebelAdmin Corp. has an initial requirement to move from on-prem Exchange services to Office 365. However, RebelAdmin Corp. has already decided to move their application and services completely to the Azure cloud by 2023. So, if an engineer just considers the immediate requirements, they can simply...