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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)

Delegating control of an OU

In large Active Directory environments, administration may be challenging. Therefore, in environments with several teams of administrators and service desk personnel, delegation can be quite helpful. This way, just to name a few possibilities, service desk personnel may reset passwords, application administrators may change group memberships, and only true Active Directory admins may manage OUs.

Getting ready

To perform delegation of control, sign in with an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group or has full control privileges of the OU you want to delegate control over.

How to do it...

This recipe describes two ways to delegate control over an OU:

  • Using Active Directory Users and Computers
  • Using the command line

Using Active Directory Users and Computers

By far the easiest way to perform delegation of control is using the Delegation of Control Wizard from Active Directory Users and Computers (dsa.msc). Perform...