You're reading from Active Directory Administration Cookbook, Second Edition Proven solutions to everyday identity and authentication challenges for both on-premises and the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803242507

Length 696 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Identity Management

Author (1):

Sander Berkouwer

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts

2. Chapter 2: Managing Domain Controllers FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Managing Active Directory Roles and Features

4. Chapter 4: Managing Containers and Organizational Units

5. Chapter 5: Managing Active Directory Sites and Troubleshooting Replication

6. Chapter 6: Managing Active Directory Users

7. Chapter 7: Managing Active Directory Groups

8. Chapter 8: Managing Active Directory Computers

9. Chapter 9: Managing DNS

10. Chapter 10: Getting the Most Out of Group Policy

11. Chapter 11: Securing Active Directory

12. Chapter 12: Managing Certificates

13. Chapter 13: Managing Federation

14. Chapter 14: Handling Authentication in a Hybrid World (AD FS, PHS, PTA, and DSSO)

15. Chapter 15: Handling Synchronization in a Hybrid World (Azure AD Connect)

16. Chapter 16: Hardening Azure AD

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Resetting a computer's secure channel

When you test a device's secure channel and it fails, the secure channel can be reset from the computer object using this recipe.

Getting ready

To reset a computer object's secret in the Active Directory object, privileges are needed to allow you to change the computer object. By default, members of the Domain Admins and Account Operators groups have this privilege. When using the Windows PowerShell method on the device itself, an account is needed that has local administrative privileges on the device and the privileges mentioned previously.

To reset the secure channel, the device needs to be on the same logical networks as at least one of the domain controllers. You might be able to rename a device when connected through a VPN connection—when the required traffic is allowed through.

When a specific domain controller is specified, ensure the Netlogon service is running.