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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Active Directory objects and attributes, and how they are defined in the Active Directory schema. We also learned how to add custom attributes to the Active Directory schema. After, we learned how we can sync custom attributes to Azure AD. We also looked into creating user account templates and the different types of service accounts. In an Active Directory environment, sometimes we need to manage permissions for groups of users who have similar operation requirements (with their department, job role, and so on). This is done using Active Directory groups. There are different group categories to choose from. In this chapter, we also looked into these group types and learned how to use them appropriately. We also went through object management best practices to help improve our Active Directory object management experience.

In the next chapter, we will be learning about designing and managing the OU.