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

How does AD FS work?

Rebeladmin Inc. is an IT service provider. There are many customers who use different IT and cloud-based services from the company. Recently, the company introduced a new web-based control panel where customers can log in and manage their resources. The same application is also used by internal staff to manage infrastructure services. Rebeladmin Inc. uses Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to manage identities. When a member of internal IT staff logs in to the portal, it doesn't ask for any login details. This is because the web application uses Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) to allow access.

This process is also called NTLM authentication or domain authentication. It doesn't prompt for the login information initially, or transfer hashed data about the currently logged-in user to the web server to check whether it's allowed. This web server is domain joined and the application itself is Active Directory-integrated. Now, users...