You're reading from Active Directory Administration Cookbook, Second Edition Proven solutions to everyday identity and authentication challenges for both on-premises and the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803242507

Length 696 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Identity Management

Author (1):

Sander Berkouwer

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts

2. Chapter 2: Managing Domain Controllers FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Managing Active Directory Roles and Features

4. Chapter 4: Managing Containers and Organizational Units

5. Chapter 5: Managing Active Directory Sites and Troubleshooting Replication

6. Chapter 6: Managing Active Directory Users

7. Chapter 7: Managing Active Directory Groups

8. Chapter 8: Managing Active Directory Computers

9. Chapter 9: Managing DNS

10. Chapter 10: Getting the Most Out of Group Policy

11. Chapter 11: Securing Active Directory

12. Chapter 12: Managing Certificates

13. Chapter 13: Managing Federation

14. Chapter 14: Handling Authentication in a Hybrid World (AD FS, PHS, PTA, and DSSO)

15. Chapter 15: Handling Synchronization in a Hybrid World (Azure AD Connect)

16. Chapter 16: Hardening Azure AD

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Chapter 10: Getting the Most Out of Group Policy

Group Policy allows administrators to manage one device or many thousands of devices and/or servers through a centralized management console. You can use it to secure domain-joined devices, make them more useful for end users, and make them look and feel identical as per your organization's standards.

Granularity in Group Policy objects offers you the ability to manage these settings for devices in the entire Active Directory domain, for an Active Directory site (but please refrain from linking Group Policy objects on the site-level), per Organizational Unit (OU), and beyond that by using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters.

Group Policy has been around since the beginning of Active Directory in Windows 2000 Server. It has seen many improvements in the last two decades, such as Group Policy preferences and many new settings relating to all the new client and server operating system possibilities.

Although...