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Mastering Active Directory

You're reading from   Mastering Active Directory Understand the Core Functionalities of Active Directory Services Using Microsoft Server 2016 and PowerShell

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787289352
Length 742 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dishan Francis Dishan Francis
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Preface 1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Active Directory Domain Services 2016 3. Designing Active Directory Infrastructure 4. Active Directory Domain Name System 5. Placing Operations Master Roles 6. Migrating to Active Directory 2016 7. Managing Active Directory Objects 8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices 9. Designing the OU Structure 10. Managing Group Policies 11. Active Directory Services 12. Active Directory Certificate Services 13. Active Directory Federation Services 14. Active Directory Rights Management Services 15. Active Directory Security Best Practices 16. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell 17. Azure Active Directory Hybrid Setup 18. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring 19. Active Directory Troubleshooting

Active Directory backup and recovery

Active Directory domain controllers are the main components responsible for the organization's identity infrastructure. The failure of domain controllers and their services impact the entire identity infrastructure. Therefore, as with any other critical system, Active Directory server's high availability is crucial. There are two types of disaster which can occur related to Active Directory domain controllers.

The first one is when there is a complete system crash due to the faulty hardware. Apart from the Active Directory backup, maintaining multiple domain controllers will help organizations to recover from such situation easily without a backup restore. If it's not the FSMO role holder, we can forcefully remove the crashed domain controller's related records and introduce a new domain controller. If it is the FSMO role...

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