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

Active Directory Services – Part 01

With this chapter, we are moving into the third section of this book, which focuses on the Active Directory (AD) server roles. There are five main AD server roles:

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

We have already looked into many AD components, features, and capabilities, but we are not quite done yet. AD services are attached to many different components, such as Domain Name System (DNS), Distributed File System Replication (DFSR), and group policies. To maintain a healthy AD environment, we need to manage each of these components properly and make sure they do what they are supposed to do. However, in some scenarios, IT professionals and software developers are only interested in AD authentication...