Learn the intricacies of managing Azure AD and Azure AD Connect, as well as Active Directory for administration on cloud and Windows Server 2019
Key Features
Expert solutions for the federation, certificates, security, and monitoring with Active Directory
Explore Azure AD and AD Connect for effective administration on cloud
Automate security tasks using Active Directory and PowerShell
Book DescriptionActive Directory is an administration system for Windows administrators to automate network, security and access management tasks in the Windows infrastructure.
This book starts off with a detailed focus on forests, domains, trusts, schemas and partitions. Next, you'll learn how to manage domain controllers, organizational units and the default containers.
Going forward, you'll explore managing Active Directory sites as well as identifying and solving replication problems. The next set of chapters covers the different components of Active Directory and discusses the management of users, groups and computers. You'll also work through recipes that help you manage your Active Directory domains, manage user and group objects and computer accounts, expiring group memberships and group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs) with PowerShell.
You'll understand how to work with Group Policy and how to get the most out of it. The last set of chapters covers federation, security and monitoring. You will also learn about Azure Active Directory and how to integrate on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD. You'll discover how Azure AD Connect synchronization works, which will help you manage Azure AD.
By the end of the book, you have learned about Active Directory and Azure AD in detail.
What you will learn
Manage new Active Directory features, such as the Recycle Bin, group Managed Service Accounts, and fine-grained password policies
Work with Active Directory from the command line and use Windows PowerShell to automate tasks
Create and remove forests, domains, and trusts
Create groups, modify group scope and type, and manage memberships
Delegate control, view and modify permissions
Optimize Active Directory and Azure AD in terms of security
Who this book is forThis book will cater to administrators of existing Active Directory Domain Services environments and/or Azure AD tenants, looking for guidance to optimize their day-to-day effectiveness. Basic networking and Windows Server Operating System knowledge would come in handy.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 188 mm
Dicke: 34 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-78980-698-4 (9781789806984)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure Active Directory, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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
Getting the most out of Group Policy
Securing Active Directory
Managing federation
Handling authentication in a hybrid world (AD FS, PHS, PTA and 3SO)
Handling synchronization in a hybrid world (Azure AD Connect)
Hardening Azure AD
