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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

Containers vs. OUs

When you open the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) Microsoft Management Console (MMC) with the advanced view, there will be pre-setup folders.

But not all of these are OUs. They are mostly containers:

Figure 9.3: Containers and OUs

The only default OU in the AD environment is the Domain Controllers OU. All other folders in the tree are containers. Containers can also contain objects. The Computers and Users containers are good examples of that. By default, any computer object will be stored in the Computers container. All of the default user accounts and security groups are stored in the Users container. Similar to OUs, containers can also be used to delegate administrative control. The only difference between containers and OUs is that group policies cannot apply to containers. Group policies can be assigned only to OUs. The system also does not allow you to create new containers other than the containers that are created by the system...