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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

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

Placing Operations Master Roles

In organizations, we use roles and responsibilities to maintain different levels of accountability. With roles and responsibilities in place, everyone knows what they are supposed to do in their job. This applies to applications/services as well. Within application/services we have different roles. These roles are also associated with different sets of privileges. While one role has read-only permissions, another has permission to do system-wide configuration changes. This helps to maintain the integrity of the application/services.

Active Directory is built upon a multi-master database model. This means that any writable domain controller in the domain can change the Active Directory configuration and it will replicate to all other domain controllers. But there are some operations that need to be controlled in a sensible manner in order to maintain the integrity of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). These operations are better managed in...