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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition Design, deploy, and protect Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2022

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070393
Length 780 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Dishan Francis Dishan Francis
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

Designing the OU structure

In Active Directory, there are different types of objects, such as user accounts, groups, and devices. It is important to manage them effectively. OUs can group objects that have similar administrative and security requirements within the domain. Organizational units are also used to delegate the administration of objects and apply group policies.

OU design changes are less complex compared to domain and forest level structure changes. When you move objects from one OU to another, they will inherit the security settings and group policies that are applied to the destination OU. Moving an object will not move any settings it has at the source OU level.

The domain administrators can delegate permission to users to become OU administrators. OU administrators can manage objects and manage policies within the OU. They can also create child OUs and delegate permissions to another user/users to manage child OU objects. OU administrators will not have control...

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