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

Overview of AD LDS

When we talk about AD, we refer to it as a single service; however, AD DS is a collection of many other components such as DNS, group policies, SYSVOL folder replication, and so on. Each of these components needs to operate well in order to run a healthy AD environment. Managing these components isn't easy; it requires investments in resources, time, and skills. It is not just about service uptime and performance; security also plays a crucial role in this. The failure or compromise of these components/services can have a potential impact on the entire AD infrastructure.

Microsoft Windows Core is also count as operating systems. It doesnt have fancy GUIs or lots of applications running, but still do the job of an operating system. It allow users to build systems from scratch according to their requirements. This also increases the server uptime (fewer updates), reliability, performance, and security. Soon after Microsoft released the first AD version, IT...