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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

Active Directory Domain Name System

We can't talk about Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) without mentioning the Domain Name System (DNS). Since Windows Server 2003, DNS has become the primary name resolution service. Before that, Windows was using NetBIOS and the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) for name resolution.

WINS and DNS are both TCP/IP network name resolution services. There are legacy systems that still use WINS instead of DNS.

DNS helps to locate resources on the internet and intranet. It can be a computer, server, service, or application. DNS can run as an independent server role on the intranet, perimeter network, or public network. There are different vendors who provide DNS solutions other than Microsoft; Linux/Unix Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is a good example of that. There are mainly two categories of DNS infrastructure. One category is organizations that host their own DNS servers to facilitate name resolution requirements for their...