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

Replication

Data replication is crucial for a healthy Active Directory environment. For a given domain controller, we can find its inbound replication partners using this:

Get-ADReplicationPartnerMetadata -Target REBEL-SRV01.rebeladmin.com

The preceding command provides a detailed description of the replication health of the given domain controller, including the last successful replication, replication partition, server, and so on.

We can list all the inbound replication partners for the given domain using the following command:

Get-ADReplicationPartnerMetadata -Target "rebeladmin.com" -Scope Domain

In the preceding command, the scope is defined as the domain. This can be changed to the forest to get a list of the inbound partners in the forest. The output is based on the default partition. If needed, the partition can be changed using –Partition to a configuration or schema partition. It will list the relevant inbound partners for the selected...