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Mastering Active Directory

By : Dishan Francis
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Mastering Active Directory

By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Active Directory is a centralized and standardized system that automates networked management of user data, security, and distributed resources and enables interoperation with other directories. If you are aware of Active Directory basics and want to gain expertise in it, this book is perfect for you. We will quickly go through the architecture and fundamentals of Active Directory and then dive deep into the core components, such as forests, domains, sites, trust relationships, OU, objects, attributes, DNS, and replication. We will then move on to AD schemas, global catalogs, LDAP, RODC, RMS, certificate authorities, group policies, and security best practices, which will help you gain a better understanding of objects and components and how they can be used effectively. We will also cover AD Domain Services and Federation Services for Windows Server 2016 and all their new features. Last but not least, you will learn how to manage your identity infrastructure for a hybrid-cloud setup. All this will help you design, plan, deploy, manage operations on, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure in a secure, effective manner. Furthermore, I will guide you through automating administrative tasks using PowerShell cmdlets. Toward the end of the book, we will cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques that can be used to improve security and performance in an identity infrastructure.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Summary

It is the end of a quite long chapter. In this chapter, we have focused on AD DS architecture and features to improve the AD infrastructure further to match with business requirements. We started the chapter by looking into AD LDS and its capabilities. Then, we moved on to Active Directory replication. In that section, we focused on the physical and logical components involved with Active Directory replication and how they can be used to optimize complex replication requirements. More importantly, we also looked into how Active Directory replication happens behind the scene. Then, we moved on to the read-only domain controllers and looked into their features and deployment scenarios. Later, we looked into Active Directory database maintenance. In there, we looked into different tools and techniques used to optimize the Active Directory database performance. Last but not...