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 service providers

In this chapter, we mainly talked about how DNS works in AD environments. However, this is not the only way to use DNS. If we need to manage DNS for external URLs such as websites, we need to configure DNS servers in a different way. This type of DNS server mainly works with public IP addresses. In order to set up an external-facing DNS server, first we need to register NS records. Then, via a domain registrar, we need to point the domain DNS to NSes. After that, we can set up the required DNS records for the domain using our own DNS servers. As with any other server role, DNS also requires maintenance from time to time. Also, we need to maintain the high availability of the DNS servers. Instead of all this additional maintenance overhead, we can also use a DNS service provider to do the same thing. Azure DNS, GoDaddy, Dotster, 1&1, and DynDNS are some of the most well-known DNS service providers. All we need is a valid subscription and within minutes, we...