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

Active Directory Domain Name System

We can't talk about Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) without mentioning the Domain Name System (DNS). Since Windows Server 2003, DNS has become the primary name resolution service. Before that, Windows was using NetBIOS and the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) for name resolution.

WINS and DNS are both TCP/IP network name resolution services. There are legacy systems that still use WINS instead of DNS.

DNS helps to locate resources on the internet and intranet. It can be a computer, server, service, or application. DNS can run as an independent server role on the intranet, perimeter network, or public network. There are different vendors who provide DNS solutions other than Microsoft; Linux/Unix Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is a good example of that. There are mainly two categories of DNS infrastructure. One category is organizations that host their own DNS servers to facilitate name resolution requirements for their...