Sander Berkouwer - Active Directory Administration Cookbook

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Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure Active Directory, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.

Brian Svidergol designs and builds infrastructure, cloud, and hybrid solutions. He holds many industry certifications, including Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) Cloud Platform and Infrastructure. Brian is the author of several books, covering everything from on-premises infrastructure technologies to hybrid cloud environments. He has extensive real-world experience, from start-up organizations to large Fortune 500 companies on design, implementation, and migration projects.

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Active Directory is an administration system for Windows administrators to automate network, security, and access management tasks in Microsoft-oriented networking infrastructures. Bundled with Microsoft's cloud-based Azure Active Directory (AD) service, it offers a comprehensive Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution to organizations that want to manage on-premises and cloud-based resources.

Active Directory can be overwhelming, but the straightforward recipes in this cookbook break it down into easy-to-follow tasks, backed by substantial real-world experience and clear explanations of what's going on under the hood.

This cookbook offers essential recipes for day-to-day Active Directory and Azure AD administration for both novices in managing Active Directory and Azure AD, and seasoned administrators with several Active Directory migrations and consolidations under their belts .

Because today's identity in the world of Microsoft technologies is no longer about just on-premises Active Directory, this book also offers three chapters with recipes for Azure AD, as well as an entire chapter dedicated to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

Whether you just need a hand, want to take out the guesswork, or have a read-up before messing it up, this book helps admins at each stage of their careers to make the right choices, check the right boxes, and automate the repeatable tasks that become tedious after some time.

This book consists of fourteen chapters:

, Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts, provides recipes for structuring the logical components of Active Directory, including UPN suffixes, trusts, domains, and forests. Several recipes help lift Active Directory to new heights, where others help expand the functionality of Active Directory in terms of collaboration.

, Managing Domain Controllers, shows how to promote, demote, and inventory both domain controllers and read-only domain controllers; these are Active Directory's physical components.

, Managing Active Directory Roles and Features, covers Flexible Single Operations Master (FSOM) roles and global catalog servers for addressing all your organization's multi-forest and multi-domain needs.

, Managing Containers and Organizational Units