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You're reading from Active Directory Administration Cookbook Actionable, proven solutions to identity management and authentication on servers and in the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789806984

Length 620 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Identity Management

Author (1):

Sander Berkouwer

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing Domain Controllers

3. Managing Active Directory Roles and Features

4. Managing Containers and Organizational Units

5. Managing Active Directory Sites and Troubleshooting Replication

6. Managing Active Directory Users

7. Managing Active Directory Groups

8. Managing Active Directory Computers

9. Getting the Most Out of Group Policy

10. Securing Active Directory

11. Managing Federation

12. Handling Authentication in a Hybrid World (AD FS, PHS, PTA, and 3SO)

13. Handling Synchronization in a Hybrid World (Azure AD Connect)

14. Hardening Azure AD

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Working with group Managed Service Accounts

This recipe shows how to work with group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs).

Getting ready

To create gMSAs, the Active Directory domain needs to have at least one domain controller running Windows Server 2012 or a newer version of Windows Server.

gMSAs can only be used to run services on domain-joined hosts running Windows Server 2012, or newer versions of Windows Server, or Windows 8, or newer versions of Windows. For the automatic password and Service Principal Name (SPN) management, the domain needs to run at least the Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Functional Level (DFL).

As gMSAs depend on the Key Distribution Service on domain controllers, prepare the forest by running the following...

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Authors (1)

Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.

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