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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787289352

Length 742 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2016

3. Designing Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2016

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services

12. Active Directory Certificate Services

13. Active Directory Federation Services

14. Active Directory Rights Management Services

15. Active Directory Security Best Practices

16. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

AD management with PowerShell - preparation

17. Azure Active Directory Hybrid Setup

18. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

19. Active Directory Troubleshooting

AD RMS components

AD RMS has its own role services and related components that need to work together in order to maintain a healthy AD RMS environment. Let's look at these components in detail.

Active Directory Domain Services

AD RMS is one of the Active Directory role services. AD RMS can be installed only in an AD DS environment, and it must be on the member servers. It is also used to publish a service connection point (SCP), where internal users can automatically discover the URL for the AD RMS environment.

The AD RMS cluster

The AD RMS cluster is a single RMS server or a group of servers that share certificates and licensing requests from their clients. Even though it is named as a cluster, it is different from a typical Windows failover cluster term. The failover cluster needs at least two nodes. However, with RMS even though it has single server it becomes a cluster. But there is one requirement for the AD RMS cluster if there are multiple servers involved. AD RMS supports two types of...