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

AD replication

Healthy replication is a must for an AD environment. AD uses a multi-master database, so every domain controller in the environment should be aware of every change in an AD database. As well as this, domain controllers should also know about changes in group policies, startup scripts, preference settings, and more. When it comes to replication, it is not only the replication service that is responsible for it. There should be stable network connectivity between domain controllers. This communication media can be copper cables, fiber cables, or even a Software-Defined Network (SDN). In this section, we are going to look at how we can use the AD-integrated features to maintain healthy replication.

FRS versus DFSR

Windows Server 2000 and 2003 use FRS to replicate the SYSVOL folder content between domain controllers. With Windows Server 2008, FRS was deprecated and Microsoft introduced DFSR for SYSVOL folder replication:

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