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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)

Viewing nested group memberships

This recipe demonstrates how to enumerate all members of a group, even those members in groups that are members of the same group.

Getting ready

To view nested group memberships for a group, sign in to a domain controller, a member server, or a device with RSAT for Active Directory Domain Services installed.

Sign in with a domain account.

How to do it...

To view nested group memberships, double-click the groups listed on the Members tab in the properties of a group and look at its members. When groups are heavily nested, though, this becomes tedious fast. A much better approach is to use Windows PowerShell.

Use the following line of PowerShell to enumerate all group memberships in Active Directory for a group on a system with the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell installed:

Get-ADGroupMember -Identity 'CN=Group,OU=Organizational Unit,DC=LucernPub,DC=com' -Recursive | Out-GridView

Replace DC=LucernPub,DC...