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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

Azure AD Connect configuration

Now, we have everything ready so that we can go ahead with the Azure AD Connect installation and configuration:

  1. Log in to the on-prem server as a Domain Administrator.
  2. Download the latest version of Azure AD Connect from https://bit.ly/3l6JZZr.
  3. Run the .msi file as an administrator.
  4. On the first page, accept the license terms and click on Continue.
  5. On the next page, select the Customize configuration option:

    Figure 18.30: Azure AD Connect express setup

  6. On the next page, keep the default selection and click on Install.
  7. On the user sign-in page, select the Pass-through authentication (step 1) and Enable single sign-on (step 2) options, and then click Next (step 3) to proceed. This will enable pass-through authentication for the directory:

    Figure 18.31: Azure AD Connect pass-through authentication setting

  8. On the next page, log in to the user Azure AD Global Admin account...