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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Securing a trust

Trusts in Active Directory can be misused for purposes not intended by the admin of the trusting domain. There are three ways to secure a trust to make it more secure:

Enable SID filtering
Enable quarantine
Enable selective authentication

SID filtering is enabled on all trust relationships, by default. SID filtering operates on the same surface as trust transitivity. When enabled, SID filtering filters the user accounts over the trust to user accounts from the domain tree that is explicitly trusted, only. In a way, it allows more granular transitivity.

Quarantine is enabled on all trust relationships, by default. Quarantine for a trust allows granular access, too. Where SID filtering allows for limiting access to a trusted domain tree, quarantine limits access to a trusted domain.

Selective authentication is not enabled, by default. Where SID filtering and quarantine limit access to user accounts from trusted domains, selective authentication...