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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

Active Directory Groups vs. OUs

Active Directory Groups and OUs have certain similarities. Both can be used to group objects together. Both can be used with Group policies. But there are a number of differences between the two.

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Feature

Active Directory Groups

OUs

Hierarchical Structure

A flat structure. A group can have different object types (users, devices, groups) as members but can't present them in hierarchical order.

Can use different models to arrange OUs in hierarchical order. Also, can change the structure easily whenever required.

Object placement

One object can be part of many different groups.