PDF Active Directory Administration Cookbook A practical guide to identity management and authentication on servers and cloud with Azure AD eBook Sander Berkouwer

Download As PDF : Active Directory Administration Cookbook A practical guide to identity management and authentication on servers and cloud with Azure AD eBook Sander Berkouwer

Learn the intricacies of managing Azure AD, Azure AD Connect as well as on-premises Active Directory.

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 Description

Active Directory is an administration system for Windows administrators to automate network, security, access management task in windows infrastructure.

This book starts off with a detailed focus on forest, domain, trust, schema and partitions. Next, you will learn how to manage domain controllers, and why to use organizational units instead of containers. Going forward, you will deep dive into managing Active Directory sites as well as identifying and solving AD replication problems. The next set of chapters will cover the different components of Active Directory and will cover management of users, groups and computers. You will also come across recipes that will help you manage your AD domains, manage user and groups objects and non-expiring password accounts with PowerShell. Later, you will understand how to work with Group Policy and get the most out of it. The last set of chapters will cover federation, certificates, security, monitoring and the troubleshooting aspect of Active Directory. You will also learn about Azure Active Directory and how to integrate on-premise AD with Azure AD. You will understand how Azure AD Connect synchronization works that will help you manage the Azure AD service accounts.

By the end of the book, you will have learnt in detail about Azure Active Directory and its capabilities.

What you will learn

Manage new AD features, such as the Recycle Bin, Group Managed Service Accounts, and fine-grained password policies
Work with AD from the command line and use Windows PowerShell to automate tasks
Remove and create forests, domains, and trusts
Create groups, modify group scope and type, and manage membership
Delegate control, view and modify permissions
Import and export data with LDAP
Optimize AD and Azure AD in terms of security

Who This Book Is For

This 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.