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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

Summary

Design, implementation, and maintenance are key stages of any successful service deployment. In this chapter, we learned how to design the Active Directory infrastructure according to industry standards and best practices. The Active Directory infrastructure has two types of components: logical and physical. In this chapter, we learned about the design and placement of both types. As part of the design exercise, we also learned how to gather business data, how to identify risks, and how to do sizing.

We also looked into the design process of a hybrid identity. Here, we learned why a hybrid identity is important and what we need to consider during the design phase. We also learned how we can gather the required information from businesses using questionnaires.

In the next chapter, we are going to look into the DNS, which is the naming system for infrastructures.