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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

Designing the forest structure

The Active Directory design starts with designing the forest structure. The Active Directory forest is the security boundary for the identity infrastructure. When you deploy the first domain controller in your infrastructure, it creates a forest as well. So, every Active Directory infrastructure has at least one forest.

There are two types of forest implementations:

Single forest
Multiple forest

Single forest

Single forest deployment is the default deployment mode. Most business models fit into the single forest model. Complexity and cost of implementation are low in this model. One of the main things you need to consider in this mode is replication. Domains are used to partition the directory and manage the replication. But forest-wide data, such as schemas, still needs to be replicated across all domains. If replication involves with branch offices, you need to make sure forest-wide replications are handled properly.