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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 deployment scenarios

In this section, we are going to look into different installation scenarios for AD DS.

Setting up a new forest root domain

For the first scenario, I am going to demonstrate how to set up a new AD forest. This will be the first domain controller of a new AD infrastructure. You can use the following checklist to make sure you have done your homework before clicking on the installation button.

AD DS installation checklist for the first domain controller

The following checklist can be used for a fresh AD DS installation:

  1. Produce an AD design document
  2. Prepare the physical/virtual resources for the domain controller
  3. Install Windows Server 2022 Standard/Datacenter
  4. Patch your servers with the latest Windows updates
  5. Assign a dedicated IP address to the domain controller
  6. Install an AD DS role
  7. Configure AD DS according to the design
  8. Review the logs to verify the health of the AD DS installation and...