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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)

Active Directory Troubleshooting

Like any other IT engineer, I also deal with the burden of broken systems from time to time. In the last 12 years of my career, I've spent long, sleepless nights fixing systems. I spent days in cold data centers. I missed long-awaited holidays. Worst of all, I dealt with the broken-system curse on Friday nights. Even if we do not like it, as engineers we spend most of our time ;fixing something. As with any other system, Active Directory environments also can have problems. Some of them have direct client impact and some don't. Not every system error has a direct solution. Most of the time, it's a part of a series of events.

In order to troubleshoot an issue and find a solution, we first need to have relevant knowledge about the application or the service. You do not need to be a master of everything but at least have enough knowledge...