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 Domain Services 2022

Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) has been in the industry for over 21 years now. The first Microsoft Active Directory version was released on February 17, 2000, along with Windows Server 2000. The first production Active Directory domain was redmond.corp.microsoft.com and it was upgraded from the Windows NT4 domain to the pre-release version of Active Directory 2000 on April 9, 1999. After Windows Server 2000, with each and every Microsoft Server release, a new AD DS version has been released as well.

Each and every time Microsoft releases a new version of their software, as IT engineers, we talk about it, we learn about it, and then we go ahead and try it. It's good practice to be on top of industry updates. However, simply migrating to the latest version of AD DS is not going to fix or improve anything related to corporate digital identities. Before we upgrade to a newer version, we need to identify any existing problems...