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

Technical professionals who wish to find simple ways to solve Active Directory, Azure AD, and Azure AD Connect problems can benefit from the Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition. You will learn how to deal with matters such as names, federation, certificates, and task security. This book deals with on-premise and cloud administration and provides solution recipes for security tasks using Active Directory tools and Windows PowerShell.

Begin with topics like forest, domain, and trusts, and then learn about domain controllers and organizational units. The book also tackles replication problems and uses PowerShell to manage user and group objects, computer accounts, and gMSAs. It also contains steps to address the DNS, certificates, Group Policy, Federation, and Security Settings to help you integrate the on-premise Active Directory with the Azure AD and comprehend Azure AD Connect synchronization.

By the end of this book titled “Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition,” you can optimally use Active Directory and Azure AD Connect to achieve your network, security and access management functions, hence automating and managing your functions proficiently.

Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition Table of Contents:

1. Chapter 1: Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts
2. Chapter 2: Managing Domain Controllers
3. Chapter 3: Managing Active Directory Roles and Features
4. Chapter 4: Managing Containers and Organizational Units
5. Chapter 5: Managing Active Directory Sites and Troubleshooting Replication
6. Chapter 6: Managing Active Directory Users
7. Chapter 7: Managing Active Directory Groups
8. Chapter 8: Managing Active Directory Computers
9. Chapter 9: Managing DNS
10. Chapter 10: Getting the Most Out of Group Policy
11. Chapter 11: Securing Active Directory
12. Chapter 12: Managing Certificates
13. Chapter 13: Managing Federation
14. Chapter 14: Handling Authentication in a Hybrid World (AD FS, PHS, PTA, and DSSO)
15. Chapter 15: Handling Synchronization in a Hybrid World (Azure AD Connect)
16. Chapter 16: Hardening Azure AD

Who is this course for?

1. Most suitable for those who are administrators of already existing Active Directory Domain Service.
2. This is a great resource for all Azure AD tenants who are wondering how to optimally organize workflow for a particular day.
3. Some understanding of networking is provided, but it is not critical.
4. Knowledge of the Windows Server Operating System is preferred to improve learning.

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