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

AD CS components

AD CS is a collection of role services, and they can be used to design the PKI for your organization. Let's look into each of these role services and their capabilities.

The CA

CA role service is responsible for issuing, storing, managing, and revoking certificates. The PKI setup can have multiple CAs. There are two main types of CAs:

The root CA: The root CA is the most trusted CA in the PKI setup. A compromised root CA will compromise an entire PKI. Therefore, the security of the root CA is crucial. Best practice is to bring the root CA online only when required. By considering the security and hierarchy of the PKI, it is recommended to use the root CA only to issue certificates to subordinate CAs.
Subordinate CAs: In PKI, subordinate CAs are responsible for issuing, storing, managing, and revoking certificates for users, devices, or services. Once a CA receives a certificate request, it will process it and issue the certificate. A...