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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

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

Designing the OU Structure

The local library in my town has a collection of nearly 10,000 books. These books cover many different subjects. When I walk into the library, I can see that there are signs hanging from the ceiling that help to identify the different library aisles that belong to different book categories such as novels, history, arts, technology, and cooking. So, if I know the type of book I am looking for, I can easily go to the relevant aisle. Each of these aisles has multiple bookshelves. These bookshelves are further categorized into subcategories. At the top of each bookshelf, there is a sign describing which subcategory it belongs to. As an example, the History section has bookshelves with categories such as History of Europe, History of Asia, World History, and so on. This makes book selection even easier—telling me exactly which bookshelves to look for. When I go to a bookshelf, the books are usually organized in alphabetical order. Each book has a small...