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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

PowerShell 7

In Windows Server 2022, we still have PowerShell version 5.1. But the future of PowerShell lies with the cross-platform PowerShell version. When we open the PowerShell console in Windows Server 2022, we can see a message saying Install the latest PowerShell for new features and improvements! https://aka.ms/PSWindows and this refer to PowerShell 7. Back in 2017, Microsoft released its first cross-platform PowerShell version, which was PowerShell Core 6.0. It is supported to run on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. It was built on .NET Core 2.x. and it was the first release of PowerShell to be made under an open-source license (MIT).

On November 11, 2020, Microsoft announced the general availability of PowerShell 7. This is built on .NET 5. Most of the modules used in Windows PowerShell 5.1 already work with PowerShell 7, including Azure PowerShell and AD. PowerShell 7 can run side by side with PowerShell 5.1. In this book, I am going to use PowerShell 7...