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

What does PAM have to do with AD DS 2022?

AD DS 2022 allows time-based group membership, which makes the process outlined above possible. This feature was first introduced with AD DS 2016. A user is added to a group with a Time-to-Live (TTL) value and, once it expires, the user is removed from the group automatically. For example, let's assume your CRM application has administrator rights assigned to the CRMAdmin security group. The users in this group only log in to the system once a month to do some maintenance. But the admin rights for the members in that group remain untouched for the remaining 29 days, 24/7. This provides enough of an opportunity for attackers to try and gain access to privileged accounts. So, if it's possible to grant access privileges for a shorter time period, isn't that more useful? Then, we can be assured that, for the majority of the days in a month, the CRM application does not run the risk of being compromised by an account in the CRMAdmin...