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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 Logs

The Windows Logs section includes five Windows log files. These mostly contain OS-related events:

  • Application log: This log contains the events collected from various applications running on the system. These events can be from Microsoft or any other application.
  • Security log: This log includes events such as successful and failed system login attempts. Engineers can specify which security events need to be recorded using audit policies.
  • Setup log: This includes events related to application setup and adding/removing server roles.
  • System log: This log includes events related to Windows system components. As an example, an event related to an automatic service start failure will be listed under this log.
  • Forwarded Events: Using Event Viewer, we can connect to another remote computer and view the events. However, it may be required to watch for specific events from multiple sources. As an example, let's assume we need to collect events...