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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

Tools and methods for managing objects

There are different tools and methods we can use to manage AD objects. When you install AD DS on a server, it will also enable access to these management tools. There are other third-party vendors who build AD management tools as well. But in this chapter, we will only be using built-in tools on Windows Server systems.

Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center is the latest Microsoft server management tool. It is a web-based application that you can use to manage Windows Server instances, Windows 10 PCs, clusters, and hyper-converged systems in an infrastructure. We also can use this tool to manage AD servers and AD objects. Before we look at that, let's study the architecture behind Windows Admin Center:

Figure 7.1: Windows Admin Center architecture

Once deployed, Windows Admin Center can be accessed from anywhere as long as the necessary firewall rules are in place. Windows Admin Center is a lightweight installation...