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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

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

Selecting the Azure AD version

Azure AD has five different editions. Azure AD free edition is the default edition for any Azure and Office 365 subscription. Basic and Premium versions are available through the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, the Open Volume License program, and the Cloud Solution Provider program. Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 licenses also come with Azure AD Premium editions. More information about these editions can be found at https://bit.ly/3oYV5km.

Deciding on a sign-in method

In this section, we are going to evaluate different Azure AD sign-in options for hybrid environments.

The sign-in options for a hybrid environment are managed only through the Azure AD Connect configuration. These sign-in methods can simply be grouped into two categories:

  1. Authentication takes place against Azure AD: In this category, cloud users and synced on-prem users will be directly authenticated via Azure AD. No authentication request will pass to on-prem AD for...