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 Backup and Recovery

Active Directory domain controllers are the main components responsible for the organization's identity infrastructure. Failure of the domain controllers or the services will impact the entire identity infrastructure. Therefore, as with any other critical system of a business, the Active Directory server's high availability is crucial. There are two types of disasters related to Active Directory domain controllers that can occur.

The first type of disaster is when there is a complete system crash due to faulty hardware. Apart from the Active Directory backup, maintaining multiple domain controllers helps organizations to recover from such situations. If it's not the flexible single master operation (FSMO) role holder, we can forcefully remove the crashed domain controller's related records and introduce a new domain controller. If it's the FSMO role holder, we can seize the FSMO roles and make them available from any...