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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

Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

The Active Directory (AD) role installation process has been made easy in the last few versions of Windows Server operating systems. Even if you don't have advanced knowledge of AD, with a few clicks, you can install an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) role on a server. But there is a lot more to think about before you install your first domain controller in an IT infrastructure. First, we need to evaluate our business requirements. We need to evaluate our security/compliance requirements, and then we can decide what AD features/services to enable and where to place them in the infrastructure. We need to get the fundamentals of the design correct before the implementation phase.

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to design an On-prem and Hybrid identity Infrastructure properly. In the design phase, we will be looking at information gathering techniques, risk mitigation, capacity planning, component placement, and...