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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

Adding DNS server details to the virtual network

If we need to add a VM to this managed domain, the VM should be able to resolve the DNS name of the managed domain. This is done via a DNS server that belongs to the managed domain. We need to add this DNS server to the virtual network so that we can add VMs to the managed domain at a later time.

To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to All Services | Azure AD Domain Services.
  2. Click on the managed domain we just created.
  3. On the next page, click on Configure, which is under Update DNS server settings for your virtual network. This will add DNS servers to the relevant virtual network:

    Figure 18.23: Update DNS records

  4. Once the DNS update process has completed, we will be able to see the records under the relevant virtual network's DNS settings:

Figure 18.24: Custom DNS servers

This completes the configuration of Azure AD DS; the next step is to configure Azure...