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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)

Managing userAccountControl

Many user objects' settings can be controlled using the userAccountControl attribute.

Getting ready

To set the userAccountControl attribute for users, 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.

How to do it...

The userAccountControl attribute can be managed in the following two ways:

  1. Reading the userAccountControl attribute
  2. Setting the userAccountControl attribute

Reading the userAccountControl attribute

There are three ways to read the userAccountControl attribute for users:

  1. Using Active Directory Users and Computers
  2. Using the Active Directory Administrative Center
  3. Using Windows PowerShell

Using Active Directory Users and Computers

To read the userAccountControl attribute for users using Active Directory Users and Computers, follow these steps...