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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)

Configuring staging mode

This recipe provides tips for configuring Azure AD Connect in staging mode.

Getting ready

To implement one or more staging-mode servers, you need to meet the same requirements as when implementing the actively synchronizing Azure AD Connect installation. In short, you need to do the following:

  • Sign in with an account that is a local administrator account on the server. As part of the process, credentials for the following accounts need to be specified:
    • An account in Active Directory that is a member of the Enterprise Admins group
    • An account in Azure AD that has the Global administrator or Hybrid Identity administrator role assigned
  • Ensure that the following are true of the Windows Server that you intend to configure as an Azure AD Connect staging-mode server:
    • Is able to communicate with the internet without having to pass proxies
    • Is running Windows Server 2016, or a newer version of Windows Server
    • Is domain-joined
    • Has Internet Explorer Enhanced...