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

Summary

We started this chapter by learning about the characteristics of each of the AD FS versions. This allows us to plan for version upgrades and get the benefits from the new features. AD FS deployment topologies change according to business requirements.

In this chapter, we also learned about different topologies, their characteristics, and their advantages and disadvantages. With the help of that, you have now learned about how to select the best topology based on business requirements. Not only did we go through the theory, but we also went through AD FS deployment using a single federation server and a single web application proxy server model.

MFA is a basic security requirement for public-facing web services. Azure MFA was first introduced to provide multi-factor protection to Azure services and later developed further to support on-prem workload protections. Prior to AD FS 2016/2019/2022, it was a complicated process to implement Azure MFA for AD FS...