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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

Active Directory Domain Services 2022

Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) has been in the industry for over 21 years now. The first Microsoft Active Directory version was released on February 17, 2000, along with Windows Server 2000. The first production Active Directory domain was redmond.corp.microsoft.com and it was upgraded from the Windows NT4 domain to the pre-release version of Active Directory 2000 on April 9, 1999. After Windows Server 2000, with each and every Microsoft Server release, a new AD DS version has been released as well.

Each and every time Microsoft releases a new version of their software, as IT engineers, we talk about it, we learn about it, and then we go ahead and try it. It's good practice to be on top of industry updates. However, simply migrating to the latest version of AD DS is not going to fix or improve anything related to corporate digital identities. Before we upgrade to a newer version, we need to identify any existing problems...