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

DNS policies

DNS policies were first introduced with Windows Server 2016 and are also available on Windows Server 2022. DNS policies mainly have the following capabilities:

Geo-location based traffic routing – Let's assume Rebeladmin Inc. uses two web servers to host its website rebeladmin.com. One of the web servers is located in Canada and the other one is located in the UK. Most of the website visitors are coming from these two regions and by maintaining the local datacenter, Rebeladmin Inc. is expecting to improve the user experience. By using a DNS policy, Rebeladmin Inc. can point USA/Canada clients to the Canada web server and Europe users to the UK web server.

We also can do this using Azure Traffic Manager. More details about its configuration is available on https://bit.ly/30QoPr8.
Application load balancing – The rebeladmin.com website has four web servers in four different datacenters in Canada. Each server...