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 recycle bin

When an object is deleted from AD, it is not permanently deleted. As soon as an object is deleted, the system will set the isDeleted attribute value to True and move the object to CN=Deleted Objects:

Figure 7.29: Deleted AD object

Then, the deleted object will stay there until the system reaches the tombstone lifetime value. By default, this is 180 days, and it can be changed if required. As soon as the object passes the tombstone lifetime value, it can be permanently deleted.

An essential function of an AD database is online defragmentation. This process uses the garbage collector service to remove deleted objects from the AD database and release space back to the database. This service runs every 12 hours. Once the deleted object exceeds the tombstone lifetime value, the object will be permanently removed in the next garbage collector service cycle. The problem with this is that during the tombstone process, most of the object values are stripped...