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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

Migrating to Active Directory 2022

In previous chapters, we looked at Active Directory (AD) components and learned how to design an AD infrastructure using them. Now, it's time to look at installing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). It would be perfect if we could design and implement an AD infrastructure from scratch, but in reality, the majority of organizations already have an AD infrastructure. Therefore, most of the time, as engineers, we will be looking into AD migrations rather than completely new designs. Apart from migrations, we may also have to work on extending the current AD design to meet new business requirements (for example, creating a new domain, introducing a new AD site, Azure AD integration, and so on) or to correct existing design issues (for example, changing the domain name, dealing with mergers and acquisitions). In all of these scenarios, we may have to add new domain controllers and these installation steps are pretty much the same. Apart from...