You're reading from Identity with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-742 MCSA Exam Guide

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Published in Jan 2019

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ISBN-13 9781838555139

Pages 232 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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IT Certification

Authors (2):

Vladimir Stefanovic

Sasha Kranjac

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Table of Contents (7) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing and Configuring Active Directory

2. Managing and Maintaining Active Directory

3. Creating and Managing Group Policy

4. Understanding and Implementing Active Directory Certificate Services

5. Understanding and Implementing Federation and Rights Management

6. Assessements

Managing certificates and templates

Once installed, AD CS is ready to issue certificates to computers and users. In this section, you will learn how to manage certificates and templates.

Managing certificates

As mentioned earlier, a certificate is a file that contains information about its owner, such as their email address, their name, the certificate usage type, and AIA and CDP URLs. All of this information will be issued from the certificate template. Each certificate also has a pair of keys, private, and public keys, which will be used in the processes of digital signing, identity validation, and encryption. The pair of keys works in the following ways:

Content that is encrypted with the public key can be decrypted only...

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Authors (2)

Vladimir Stefanovic

Vladimir Stefanovic is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and System Engineer with 10+ years of experience in IT industry. Over the IT career, Vladimir has worked in all areas of IT administration, from IT technician to current System Engineer position. As a lead System Engineer in Serbian IT company SuperAdmins and lead technician trainer in Admin Training Center, he successfully delivered a numerous of project and courses. He is also active conference speaker, with a long list of conferences like as MCT Summits (USA, Germany, Greece), ATD, WinDays, KulenDayz, Sinergija (Regional Conferences). He is a leader of a few user groups and active community member, with mission to share knowledge as much as possible.

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Sasha Kranjac

Sasha is a Security and Cloud professional, architect, and instructor. More than two decades ago, he began programming in Assembler on Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX, met Windows NT 3.5, and was hooked to IT ever since. He is CEO at Kloudatech - Microsoft Partner, CompTIA Authorized Delivery Partner, Amazon Web Services Partner company - that helps businesses and individuals around the globe to embrace the cloud and be safe in cyberspace. Aside from Cloud/Security Architecture and consulting, he delivers Microsoft, EC-Council, CompTIA and bespoke courses and PowerClass Workshops internationally. For exceptional community contributions, Sasha has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the Azure category. Sasha is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), MCT Regional Lead, Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI), and a frequent speaker at various international conferences, user groups and events.

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