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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 deployment

AD RMS deployment topologies are a bit different from other AD role service deployments. Other AD role service deployment topologies are mostly focused on high availability or scalability. But AD RMS deployments are more about addressing different types of business requirements. Let's look at those topologies in detail.

Single forest - single cluster

This is the most commonly used deployment topology. AD RMS operation boundaries are limited to their own forest. The deployment will have only one AD RMS cluster to process certificates and licensing requirements. The cluster can contain any number of servers, and load balancing is handled in the cluster level. If it has multiple servers, the AD RMS cluster should use the MS SQL Server database instead of WIDs. This deployment model will not consider extending to non-corporate networks.

Following are the advantages and disadvantages of single forest--single cluster: