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

Best practices

In previous sections, I have explained things we need to consider for FSMO role placement. Here, I'd like to summarize the points we discussed so far:

Domain controllers in the forest should be able to reach FSMO role holders without any network layer connection barriers. If domain controllers are in a segmented network, make sure traffic is routed correctly.
We can distribute FSMO roles to multiple servers; however, more servers means more management overhead. Unless it is a real requirement, try to keep FSMO roles to a fewer number of computers.
Place the PDC role in the most reliable and powerful domain controller. Avoid installing applications and other Windows Server roles in PDC to reduce unnecessary resource usage.
Keep the RID master and PDC roles in the same domain controller (same domain). Communication between these roles is crucial and keeping this in the same domain controller ensures reliable connectivity. Resource...