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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

AD DS installation prerequisites

Before we look at installing AD DS, there are certain prerequisites that need to be fulfilled. Without these, even if we have a good design, we will not have a healthy AD DS environment.

Hardware requirements

In modern infrastructures, most workloads run on virtualized platforms. Some still think it is best to keep at least one physical domain controller in AD infrastructure but this is not true. In the early days of virtualization, I would somewhat agree but now technology has moved on. We can keep all domain controllers as virtualized domain controllers. However, if required, the following are the minimum hardware requirements for AD DS 2022:

  • 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
  • 2 GB RAM
  • A storage adapter that supports the PCI Express architecture (Windows Server 2022 does not support IDE/ATA/PATA/EIDE for boot, data, or page drives)
  • 32 GB of free space
  • 1 x network adapter
  • DVD drive or support for a network USB...