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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

Windows Event Viewer

As an engineer, I am sure you are well aware of Windows Event Viewer. It is a built-in tool that can be used to view and filter event logs on a local or remote computer. The events shown there are generated by the operating system, services, server roles, and applications. This is the most commonly used tool in Windows systems for auditing and troubleshooting purposes.

We also can write custom events to event logs. This is useful if you plan to run a script or action based on a particular event ID. This can be done by using the Write-Eventlog cmdlet.

As shown in the following screenshot, Windows Event Viewer (Local) has four different categories to group event logs:

Figure 19.1: Windows Event Viewer

In the preceding list, Windows Logs and Application and Service Logs both have additional predefined subcategories.