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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

DNS policies

DNS policies were first introduced with Windows Server 2016 and are also available on Windows Server 2022. DNS policies mainly have the following capabilities:

  1. Geo-location based traffic routing – Let's assume Rebeladmin Inc. uses two web servers to host its website rebeladmin.com. One of the web servers is located in Canada and the other one is located in the UK. Most of the website visitors are coming from these two regions and by maintaining the local datacenter, Rebeladmin Inc. is expecting to improve the user experience. By using a DNS policy, Rebeladmin Inc. can point USA/Canada clients to the Canada web server and Europe users to the UK web server.

    We also can do this using Azure Traffic Manager. More details about its configuration is available on https://bit.ly/30QoPr8.

  2. Application load balancing – The rebeladmin.com website has four web servers in four different datacenters in Canada. Each server...