Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete the tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to ensure that the Technical requirements section from Chapter 1, Exam Overview and the Current State of Cloud Workflows, has been completed in full.

When it comes to on-premises and even hybrid authentication and authorization, AD DS provides the necessary user, group, device, policy, and identity management tools for all the objects within your infrastructure. Knowing how to effectively restore and recover objects and services for AD DS, troubleshoot on-premises authentication issues, and troubleshoot hybrid authentication and authorization issues are a must.

This becomes even more important when organizations have users and devices connecting to hybrid services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps such as Microsoft 365. The integration of both on-premises and cloud identity management systems quickly...