Active Directory Administration Cookbook: Proven solutions to everyday identity and authentication challenges for both on-premises and the cloud, 2nd Edition

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The second edition of the “Active Directory Administration Cookbook” provides simple and useful recipes to manage Active Directory and Azure AD. With this book, you will learn how to handle everyday identity and authentication challenges for both on-premises and the cloud with Windows Server 2022.

Key Features

• Expert solutions for name resolution, federation, certificates, and security with Active Directory
• Explore Microsoft Azure AD and Azure AD Connect for effective administration on the cloud
• Automate security tasks using Active Directory tools and PowerShell

Book Description

The second edition of the “Active Directory Administration Cookbook” has been updated to cover effective recipes for Active Directory administration. This book will help you automate network, security, and access management tasks in the Windows infrastructure.

Starting with a detailed focus on forests, domains, trusts, schemas, and partitions, this book will help you manage domain controllers, organizational units, and default containers. You will learn how to manage Active Directory sites and identify and solve replication problems. The book will teach you how to manage AD domains, user and group objects, and computer accounts. You will also learn how to work with DNS and certificates, manage Group Policy, and focus on federation and security, before exploring Azure Active Directory and how to integrate on-premise Active Directory with it. Finally, you’ll discover how to harden Azure AD.

By the end of this AD administration book, you’ll be able to make the most of Active Directory and Azure AD Connect.

What You Will Learn

• Manage the Recycle Bin, gMSAs, and fine-grained password policies
• Work with Active Directory from both the graphical user interface (GUI) and command line
• Use Windows PowerShell to automate tasks
• Create and remove forests, domains, domain controllers, and trusts
• Create groups, modify group scope and type, and manage memberships
• Delegate, view, and modify permissions
• Set up, manage, and optionally decommission certificate authorities
• Optimize Active Directory and Azure AD for security

Who This Book Is For

This “Active Directory Administration Cookbook” is for administrators of existing Active Directory Domain Service environments as well as for Azure AD tenants looking for guidance to optimize their day-to-day tasks. Basic networking and Windows Server Operating System knowledge will be useful for getting the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

• Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts
• Managing Domain Controllers
• Managing Active Directory Roles and Features
• Managing Containers and Organizational Units
• Managing Active Directory Sites and Troubleshooting Replication
• Managing Active Directory Users
• Managing Active Directory Groups
• Managing Active Directory Computers
• Managing DNS
• Getting the Most Out of Group Policy
• Securing Active Directory
• Managing Certificates
• Managing Federation
• Handling Authentication in a Hybrid World (AD FS, PHS, PTA and DSSO)
• Handling Synchronization in a Hybrid World (Azure AD Connect)
• Hardening Azure AD

Book Details

• ASIN: B09X5VFVMF
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 15, 2022)
• Publication date: July 15, 2022
• Language: English
• File size: 35052 KB
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Screen Reader: Supported
• Enhanced typesetting:Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Word Wise: Not Enabled
• Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
• Print length:696 pages