This section will help you to learn about the physical and logical components of Active Directory, and how those can be used to build an Active Directory environment by considering business requirements, availability, efficiency, and security. Before we dive into the management and advanced functionalities of Active Directory, we still need to learn about the technology behind a directory service, and the chapters in this section will guide you with this. Apart from that, we are also going to look into the new features of Active Directory 2016.

As we all know, organizations are moving into cloud services on an increasingly frequent basis. This changes the authentication and authorization requirements as well. Therefore, we are also going to evaluate the benefits of moving to a hybrid identity with Azure Active Directory.

This section contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Active Directory Fundamentals
• Chapter 2, Active Directory Domain Services 2016
• Chapter 3, Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure
• Chapter 4, Active Directory Domain Name System
• Chapter 5, Placing Operations Master Roles
• Chapter 6, Migrating to Active Directory 2016