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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

Creating a Global Administrator account for Azure AD Connect

During the Azure AD Connect configuration, we require an account that has Global Administrator privileges (in Azure). It is recommended to use a separate account for this.

In order to create a user account, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on Azure Active Directory in the Azure portal.
  2. Click on All users | + New user:

    Figure 18.25: Create new user

  3. Then, type the account name and username in the relevant fields. After that, click on Directory role and make sure that you select Global Administrator.
  4. After creating the user, log in to the Azure portal using the new account details and make sure that the account is in a working state before using it for AD sync.
  5. Also, make sure that this account is a member of the AAD DC Administrators group. This will provide administrative privileges to the managed domain.

The next step of the configuration is to set up Azure...