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

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

Evaluating the present business requirements

There can be one or many reasons why a business is looking to extend their on-prem AD to Azure AD. The most common reasons can be as follows:

Let's go ahead and explore each of the above in detail:

Use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications: This is one of the most common reasons for an organization to start using the Azure AD hybrid model. With the maturity of the cloud, lots of software vendors started to move into the SaaS market. Most of these solutions are now available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Due to HA, less management, scalability, and cost, most organizations do not hesitate to move into SaaS applications. Every SaaS application requires authentication to handle access permissions. By extending on-prem AD to Azure AD, users are able to use their existing domain logins to...