Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Preface

Active Directory (AD) is an administration system for Windows administrators to automate network, security, and access management tasks in the Windows infrastructure. This second edition is updated to cover Windows Server 2022 and guides you through effective recipes for AD administration.

The book starts with a detailed focus on forests, domains, trusts, schemas, and partitions. After that, you'll learn how to manage domain controllers, organizational units (OUs), and default containers. You'll explore how to manage Active Directory sites, as well as identifying and solving replication problems. Later chapters cover different object types in Active Directory: users, groups, and computers. You'll also work through recipes that help you ...