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Mastering Active Directory

You're reading from   Mastering Active Directory Understand the Core Functionalities of Active Directory Services Using Microsoft Server 2016 and PowerShell

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787289352
Length 742 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dishan Francis Dishan Francis
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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 17. Azure Active Directory Hybrid Setup 18. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring 19. Active Directory Troubleshooting

User accounts

In AD infrastructure, what is the most common administrative task? Obviously, it's creating and managing user accounts. A user account does not only hold a username and password, it also holds data such as group memberships, roaming profile path, home folder path, login script info, remote dial in permissions, and many more. Every time we set up a new account, we need to define values for these attributes. When it increases the number of attributes and features that need to adjust on the account creation process, it also increases the number of mistakes that can happen. Here, however, we are dealing with identities, and even a small mistake can cost organization lot. As an example, if you add a user to the wrong user group accidentally, he/she will have access to some resources which they are not supposed to have.

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