You're reading from Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition Design, deploy, and protect Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2022

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070393

Length 780 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2022

3. Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2022

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services – Part 01

12. Active Directory Services – Part 02

13. Active Directory Certificate Services

14. Active Directory Federation Services

15. Active Directory Rights Management Services

16. Active Directory Security Best Practices

17. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

18. Hybrid Identity

19. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Summary

Azure AD is a Microsoft-managed, cloud-based, and multi-tenant directory service. It can be used in a cloud-only infrastructure or in a hybrid infrastructure. When used in a hybrid infrastructure, it allows us to use the same identities so that we can work with resources on-prem and in the cloud. It extends local AD infrastructure functionalities to the cloud.

In this chapter, we learned what Azure AD DS is and what its capabilities are. We also looked into the different types of sign-in options that we can use in a hybrid setup, including password hash synchronization, pass-through authentication, and SSO. After that, we looked at a step-by-step guide for integrating our on-prem directory service with Azure AD. We also learned how to set up secure LDAP with an Azure AD managed domain and how to improve the resiliency of the Azure AD managed domain by using replica sets. In this chapter, I was only able to demonstrate a very limited number of features and capabilities...