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

DNS essentials

In a Windows Server environment, the DNS service can be run as an individual service or as an AD-integrated service. Either way, core DNS components, technology, and terms will be the same for both scenarios.

DNS records

The DNS database holds various types of resource records. In an AD-integrated DNS setup, most of these records will be created automatically when adding resources to the domain, changing settings in resources, or promoting/demoting domain controllers (SRV records, A records, and AAAA records). However, in an infrastructure, some resource records may still need to be created manually in DNS servers (static).

Start of authority record

Each DNS zone must have a start of authority (SOA) record, and it is created when a zone is created for the first time. This record provides lots of general information for the DNS zones, such as:

Primary server: The best DNS source for the zone.
Responsible person: The email address of the...