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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

Deciding on the domain and forest functional levels

Once the domain and forest designs are ready, the next step is to decide on the forest and domain functional levels. The forest and domain functional levels define the AD DS features that can be used in the identity infrastructure. You cannot have AD DS 2022 features if your organization level is running on the Windows Server 2012 domain and forest functional levels. When you add the domain controller to the existing forest or domain, it will automatically match the existing forest and domain functional level.

There are a couple of things you need to consider when you're deciding on the forest and domain functional levels:

  • Existing domain controllers: It is always good to run the latest and greatest functional levels, but it isn't always practical. The lowest domain controller version in the domain decides the maximum forest and domain function you can have without an upgrade. As an example, in your domain...