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

Federation with Azure AD

Federation trusts between domains allow organizations to manage their own identities within their own environments. Azure AD also supports federation with on-prem AD. When a federation trust is in place, users can log in to Azure AD using the same on-prem AD passwords. With this method, on-prem users will always be authenticating via on-prem AD. We can use AD Federation Services (AD FS) or PingFederate to create federation trusts between Azure AD and on-prem AD.

In Chapter 13, I have explained how AD FS works with Azure AD and also demonstrated how to enable federation between Azure AD and AD FS. Please check Chapter 13 if you need more details.

Pass-through authentication

To create federation trusts between Azure AD and on-prem AD, quite a bit of work is involved. We need additional servers, SSL certificates, licenses, a HA solution, firewall changes, and advanced configurations. But Azure AD Pass-through Authentication allows organizations to...