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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Sander Berkouwer
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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Sander Berkouwer

Overview of this book

Updated to the Windows Server 2022, this second edition covers effective recipes for Active Directory administration that will help you leverage AD's capabilities for automating network, security, and access management tasks in the Windows infrastructure. Starting with a detailed focus on forests, domains, trusts, schemas, and partitions, this book will help you manage domain controllers, organizational units, and default containers. You'll then explore Active Directory sites management as well as identify and solve replication problems. As you progress, you'll work through recipes that show you how to manage your AD domains as well as user and group objects and computer accounts, expiring group memberships, and Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) with PowerShell. Once you've covered DNS and certificates, you'll work with Group Policy and then focus on federation and security before advancing to Azure Active Directory and how to integrate on-premise Active Directory with Azure AD. Finally, you'll discover how Microsoft Azure AD Connect synchronization works and how to harden Azure AD. By the end of this AD book, you’ll be able to make the most of Active Directory and Azure AD Connect.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Applying security filters

Group Policy can be linked to OUs but, despite its name, not to groups. However, this recipe shows how a security filter can be applied so that the GPO link only applies to members of a specific group.

Getting ready

To apply security filters on a GPO, sign in to a system with the Group Policy Management feature installed with an account that is either of the following:

  • A member of the Domain Admins group
  • The current owner of the GPO
  • Delegated the Edit settings or Edit settings, delete, modify security permission on the GPO

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Press Start.
  2. Search for Group Policy Management and click its search result, or run gpmc.msc. The Group Policy Management window appears.
  3. In the left navigation pane, expand the Forest node.
  4. Expand the Domains node, and then navigate to the domain where you want to apply security filters to the GPO.
  5. Expand the domain name and then expand...