Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) have been in the industry for more than 15 years now. The first Microsoft AD version was released with Windows Server 2000. After that, with each and every Microsoft Server release, a new AD DS version was released too. Those changes improved the functions, security, manageability, and reliability of identity infrastructures.
Each and every time Microsoft releases a new version of their software, IT engineers, IT professionals, and administrators rush to figure out what is new in it. It's good practice to be on top of industrial trends. At the time I started writing this book, there weren't many resources available to explain the new features of AD DS 2016.
Microsoft released AD DS 2016 at a very interesting time technologically. As I stated in the previous chapter, today's...
