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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Sander Berkouwer
Book Image

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)

Modifying several users at once

Once a few user objects have been created, a need might arise to modify one attribute for all previously created user objects. Other scopes of user objects might also apply.

Modifying one user object is as simple as double-clicking on it in Active Directory Users and Computers or in the Active Directory Administrative Center. Modifying multiple objects at once is slightly different, and there are a couple of neat tricks you can use.

Getting ready

To modify user objects, sign in to a domain controller or a member server and/or device with RSAT for Active Directory Domain Services installed.

Sign in with an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group or the Account Operators group or with an account that is delegated to manage user objects in the domain or scope of the OU where the user objects reside.

How to do it...

There are three ways to modify user objects:

  1. Using Active Directory Users and Computers
  2. Using the...