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You're reading from Mastering Active Directory Deploy and secure infrastructures with Active Directory, Windows Server 2016, and PowerShell

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789800203

Length 786 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Infrastructure Management

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Active Directory Planning, Design, and Installation FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Fundamentals

3. Active Directory Domain Services 2016

4. Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

5. Active Directory Domain Name System

6. Placing Operations Master Roles

7. Migrating to Active Directory 2016

8. Section 2: Active Directory Administration

9. Managing Active Directory Objects

10. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

11. Designing the OU Structure

12. Managing Group Policies

13. Section 3: Active Directory Service Management

14. Active Directory Services

15. Active Directory Certificate Services

16. Active Directory Federation Services

17. Active Directory Rights Management Services

18. Section 4: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

19. Active Directory Security Best Practices

20. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

21. Azure Active Directory Hybrid Setup

22. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

23. Active Directory Troubleshooting

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Active Directory server roles

There are five main Active Directory server roles. These roles are grouped together in the required Active Directory environment, in order to set up and configure Active Directory server roles:

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

Since Windows Server 2008, these roles can be installed and configured using Windows Server Manager. It is the same in Windows Server 2016.

Each of these server roles can also be installed and configured using PowerShell. The following PowerShell cmdlets can be used to install Active Directory server roles:

PowerShell cmdlets	Description
`Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services`	This cmdlet will install the AD...

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Authors (1)

Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.

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