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

DNS infrastructure design

In the first chapter, I have mentioned how AD domain and forest represent the logical structure of AD setup. We also need to design DNS infrastructure to support the AD logical structure.

AD DS must require integration with DNS. Otherwise, the clients will not be able to locate domain controllers. The DNS infrastructure design mainly has two models:

The organization already has existing DNS infrastructure and they'd like to keep it. If that is the case, we need to integrate the existing DNS infrastructure with AD namespace. This involves deploying new DNS servers and DNS delegation.
The organization doesn't have DNS infrastructure at all. In such a situation, it's easier to implement new DNS infrastructure along with the new AD setup process. It simplifies the maintenance and administration process.

From these two models, integration with existing DNS infrastructure can be challenging. Let's go ahead and...