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

The Protected Users security group

The Protected Users security group was introduced with Windows Server 2012 R2 and continued in Windows Server 2022. This group was developed to provide highly privileged accounts with better protection from credential theft attacks. Members of this group have non-configurable protection applied. To use the Protected Users group, the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) should be running with a minimum of Windows Server 2012 R2 and the client computers should be running with a minimum of Windows 8.1 or Windows 2012 R2.

If a member of this group logs in to Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, or Windows Server 2022, then we can expect the following:

Members of this group cannot use NTLM, digest authentication, or CredSSP for authentication. Plain-text passwords are not cached. So, any of the devices using these protocols will fail to authenticate to the domain.
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