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Active Directory Administration Cookbook

You're reading from Active Directory Administration Cookbook

Product type Book

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789806984

Pages 620 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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System Administration

Author (1):

Sander Berkouwer

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts

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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Demoting a domain controller

Every domain controller has a life cycle. After a certain period of time, it should make room for newer, better, more agile, or even more cost-efficient, domain controllers or other solutions, such as Azure Active Directory (Domain Services).

Getting ready

Before you can demote a domain controller, you should make sure of the following:

It no longer hosts any FSMO roles.
It no longer offers networking services, such as DNS, LDAP, RADIUS, or WINS. These protocols are largely manually configured on networking devices and other servers. Demoting a domain controller that offers these services might negatively impact the networking infrastructure. Reconfigure networking devices and servers to use alternative...

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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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