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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Making PTA (geo)redundant

This recipe shows how to install additional PTA agents to make PTA (geo)redundant.

Getting ready

To register additional PTA agents with Azure AD, you'll need to sign in with an account that is a local administrator on the Windows Server installation you plan to run the PTA agent on. As part of the following steps, you'll need to enter the credentials for these accounts:

An account in Active Directory that is a member of the Enterprise Admins group
An account in Azure AD that has the Global administrator role assigned

Ensure the Windows Server running the additional PTA agent is domain-joined, able to communicate with the internet without having to pass proxies, is running Windows Server 2016 or a newer version of Windows Server, and has IE ESC turned off.

Download the PTA agent from the following URL:

aka.ms/getauthagent

If the organization uses the Azure AD PIM feature, activate the Global administrator role in...