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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

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 a hybrid identity

There are many reasons why organizations look to extend their On-prem AD to Azure AD. Let's look into some of those reasons:

  • Cloud application (SaaS) adoption: Organizations use different types of applications for their operations (On-prem). Most standalone applications are easy to manage and maintain, but some applications have complexities. Some applications require lots of resources. SAP applications are a great example. SAP applications depend on a few components such as database servers, application servers, and front-end servers. If any of these components fail, the whole application fails too. Therefore, you need to plan for high availability on top of that. Now, more and more vendors are taking away this burden from customers and offer cloud versions of applications instead of On-prem ones. By doing this, organizations don't have to worry about scalability, availability, and maintenance. The application will be available for...