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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

Hierarchical naming structures

In Chapter 1, Active Directory Fundamentals, we looked into domain trees and explored how they can be used to organize the domain structure in the hierarchical method. DNS allows us to translate this logical structure into the domain namespace. Similar to a tree, it starts from the root and is spread into different layers, such as branches and leaves. In the domain tree, the root is represented by a dot (.). A typical tree branch contains many leaves. In the domain tree, a branch represents a collection of named resources, and a leaf in a branch represents a single named entry. In a tree, branches and leaves depend on each other. Branches and leaves are part of one system until everything is attached together. When we describe a leaf or a branch, we explain it with the relationship to the tree. For example, if I need to show someone a leaf of an apple tree, I will call it an apple leaf. Then, the person knows it's a part of an apple tree.

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