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Active Directory Administration Cookbook

By : Sander Berkouwer
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Active Directory Administration Cookbook

By: Sander Berkouwer

Overview of this book

Active Directory is an administration system for Windows administrators to automate network, security and access management tasks in the Windows infrastructure. This book starts off with a detailed focus on forests, domains, trusts, schemas and partitions. Next, you'll learn how to manage domain controllers, organizational units and the default containers. Going forward, you'll explore managing Active Directory sites as well as identifying and solving replication problems. The next set of chapters covers the different components of Active Directory and discusses the management of users, groups and computers. You'll also work through recipes that help you manage your Active Directory domains, manage user and group objects and computer accounts, expiring group memberships and group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) with PowerShell. You'll understand how to work with Group Policy and how to get the most out of it. The last set of chapters covers federation, security and monitoring. You will also learn about Azure Active Directory and how to integrate on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD. You'll discover how Azure AD Connect synchronization works, which will help you manage Azure AD. By the end of the book, you have learned about Active Directory and Azure AD in detail.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Hardening Azure AD

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a Microsoft cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution. Over the years, many features have been added to the platform to address the needs of its millions of customers worldwide. Many of these features were security features that weren't turned on, by default. For newer Azure AD tenants, some of the security features are turned on, by default.

This chapter shows you how to configure an Azure AD tenant with features to increase its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Some of these features and functionalities might hinder productivity, so you might not want to introduce them or communicate them first.

The recipes in this chapter start with recipes any admin can apply to harden any Azure AD tenant. Then, recipes are covered that require Azure AD Premium P1 licenses. At the end of the chapter, two...