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Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

By : Jochen Nickel
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Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Identifying and classifying information inside a company is one of the most important prerequisites for securing the sensitive information of various business units. Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control helps you not only to classify information, but it also gives you the opportunity and the functionality to provide a safe-net policy across your file servers, showing you some helpful ways of auditing and access denied assistance to improve usability. Understanding the architecture, the design, and implementing the solution, to troubleshooting will be covered in a practical and easy-to-read manner. This book is packed with project-based examples with plenty of information about the architecture, functionality, and extensions of Dynamic Access Control to help you excel in real-life projects. The book guides you through all the stages of a successful implementation of Dynamic Access Control. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control will teach you everything you need to know to create your own projects, and is an essential resource for reviewing or extending already existing implementations. The book initially takes you through the task of understanding all of the functionality and extensions with ideas and overviews to help guide you in the decision process. The whole architecture will be explained in the main building blocks of Dynamic Access control. You will have a strong foundation and understanding of the claims model and Kerberos. Classifying information, the hardest part of the prerequisites to fulfil, is also covered in depth. You will also spend time understanding conditional expressions, and the method used to deploy them across your file server infrastructure. A special chapter is included for handling the data quality and the integration in other systems and strategies. Last, but not least, to get your solution up and running you will learn how to troubleshoot a Dynamic Access Control solution.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

General troubleshooting


In this section, we will describe the basic troubleshooting tasks to solve the most common problems that we encounter in Dynamic Access Control.

Domain Controller count

In projects, the first question we get is about the number of Domain Controllers we need to handle the new Kerberos requests with claims information. The best way to determine whether there are enough Domain Controllers is to use performance monitoring counters.

The most relevant performance monitoring counters are:

  • Security system-wide statistics \ KDC AS requests

  • Security system-wide statistics \ KDC AS requests with claims

  • Security system-wide statistics \ KDC AS requests with FAST

  • Security system-wide statistics \ KDC S4U2Self requests with claims

  • Security system-wide statistics \ KDC TGS requests

  • Security system-wide statistics \ KDC TGS requests with FAST

To plan your Domain Controller environment you should adhere to the general recommendations mentioned in the following list and capture the necessary...