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 DS installation prerequisites

Before we look at installing AD DS, there are certain prerequisites that need to be fulfilled. Without these, even if we have a good design, we will not have a healthy AD DS environment.

Hardware requirements

In modern infrastructures, most workloads run on virtualized platforms. Some still think it is best to keep at least one physical domain controller in AD infrastructure but this is not true. In the early days of virtualization, I would somewhat agree but now technology has moved on. We can keep all domain controllers as virtualized domain controllers. However, if required, the following are the minimum hardware requirements for AD DS 2022:

1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
2 GB RAM
A storage adapter that supports the PCI Express architecture (Windows Server 2022 does not support IDE/ATA/PATA/EIDE for boot, data, or page drives)
32 GB of free space
1 x network adapter
DVD drive or support for a network USB...