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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

Managing Active Directory sites and other components

There are two ways to manage Active Directory sites and related components. One option is to use the Active Directory Sites and Services MMC, and other-one is to use PowerShell cmdlets. In order to add/edit/remove sites and related configurations, we need to have Domain Admin/Enterprise Admin privileges.

Note

The Active Directory Sites and Services MMC will be available in any server which has AD DS service enabled or any server/computer that has Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) installed. The Active Directory PowerShell module also will be available in any server, which has AD DS role enabled or has the RSAT tools installed.

Managing sites

When the first domain controller is introduced into the infrastructure, the system creates its first site as Default-First-Site-Name. This can be changed based on the requirements. We can review the existing sites configuration using the following PowerShell cmdlet: