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 RMS components

AD RMS has its own role services and related components that need to work together in order to maintain a healthy AD RMS environment:

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
The AD RMS cluster
Web server
SQL Server
The AD RMS client
Active Directory Certificate Service (AD CS)

Let's look into each of these components in detail.

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

AD RMS is one of the AD role services. AD RMS can be installed only in an AD DS environment. As a part of the setup, a service connection point (SCP) will need to be published via AD. It will help users to discover the service URLs for the AD RMS environment.

The AD RMS cluster

The AD RMS cluster is a single RMS server or a group of servers that share certificates and licensing requests from their clients. Even though it is named cluster, it is different from a typical Windows failover cluster. The failover cluster needs at least...