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

Predefined AD administrator roles

AD has predefined administrator roles. Each of these roles has predefined permissions attached to them. If a user needs these role permissions, their account needs to be added to the relevant security group. These security groups are predefined groups:

Enterprise Admins: This is the highest AD role permission that can be applied in the AD forest. The accounts that are part of this group can modify the logical and physical topology of the AD infrastructure. This also allows you to perform schema changes. This role is capable of managing other role memberships (Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins, and Domain Admins).
Schema Admins: Members of this group can modify the AD schema. This is only included in the forest root domain as the schema is handled on the forest level.
Domain Admins: This is the highest AD role permission that can be applied in an AD domain. When adding the first domain controller to the forest, the default administrator...