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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 the OU structure

In Active Directory, there are different types of objects, such as user accounts, groups, and devices. It is important to manage them effectively. OUs can group objects that have similar administrative and security requirements within the domain. Organizational units are also used to delegate the administration of objects and apply group policies.

OU design changes are less complex compared to domain and forest level structure changes. When you move objects from one OU to another, they will inherit the security settings and group policies that are applied to the destination OU. Moving an object will not move any settings it has at the source OU level.

The domain administrators can delegate permission to users to become OU administrators. OU administrators can manage objects and manage policies within the OU. They can also create child OUs and delegate permissions to another user/users to manage child OU objects. OU administrators will not have control...