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

The features of AD DS 2022

AD DS's improvements are found in its forest and domain functional levels. Upgrading the operating system or adding domain controllers that run Windows Server 2022 to an existing AD infrastructure isn't going to upgrade the forest and domain functional levels automatically. We need to upgrade them manually once all older domain controllers are decommissioned. When it comes to forest and domain functional levels, there is a big difference in Windows Server 2022. Up to the Windows Server 2016 release, there have been new forest and domain functional levels. But starting from Windows Server 2019 there are NO new forest or domain functional levels.

The most recent forest and domain functional levels we can choose are still from Windows Server 2016. But what does this mean? If the improvements are bound to forest and domain functional levels, does this mean there are no new features on AD DS 2022? Yes, that's correct: there are no new AD DS...