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

How does AD RMS work?

By now, we know the components of AD RMS and their responsibilities. In this section, we are going to learn in detail how all these components work together in order to protect sensitive corporate data.

Before we start the data protection process, we need a healthy AD RMS cluster, AD RMS clients (author and recipient), and a reliable connection between these components. Once these prerequisites are fulfilled, the data protection process will go through three main stages: protecting the author's content, publishing the protected content, and accessing the protected content (recipient).

Let's assume Peter is trying to protect a document using AD RMS. He is going to send it to Adam, but he does not want him to edit or print it. This is the first time he is going to use AD RMS. In an AD RMS environment, the user, Peter, will be referred to as an information author. In his first authentication into the AD RMS cluster, a rights account certificate...