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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 service providers

In this chapter, we mainly talked about how DNS works in AD environments. However, this is not the only way to use DNS. If we need to manage DNS for external URLs such as websites, we need to configure DNS servers in a different way. This type of DNS server mainly works with public IP addresses. In order to set up an external-facing DNS server, first we need to register NS records. Then, via a domain registrar, we need to point the domain DNS to NSes. After that, we can set up the required DNS records for the domain using our own DNS servers. As with any other server role, DNS also requires maintenance from time to time. Also, we need to maintain the high availability of the DNS servers. Instead of all this additional maintenance overhead, we can also use a DNS service provider to do the same thing. Azure DNS, GoDaddy, Dotster, 1&1, and DynDNS are some of the most well-known DNS service providers. All we need is a valid subscription and within minutes, we...