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The second edition of the Active Directory Administration Cookbook was published on July 15th, 2022. I updated the original Active Directory Administration Cookbook with everything that is new in Windows Server 2022 and with the latest and greatest in Azure Active Directory.

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Active Directory Administration Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Packt Publishing Limited
696 pages, July 15th 2022

Learn the intricacies of managing Azure AD, Azure AD Connect as well as Active Directory for administration in the cloud and on Windows Server 2022.

This book starts off with a detailed focus on forests, domains, trusts, schemas and partitions. Next, you learn how to manage domain controllers, organizational units and the default containers. Going forward, you deep dive into managing Active Directory sites as well as identifying and solving replication problems.

The next set of chapters covers the different components of Active Directory and discusses the management of users, groups and computers. You also go through recipes that help you manage your Active Directory domains, manage user and groups objects and computer accounts, expiring group memberships and group Managed Service Accounts with PowerShell. You learn how to work with Group Policy and how to get the most out of it.

The last set of chapters covers federation, security and monitoring. You will also learn about Azure Active Directory and how to integrate on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD. You learn how Azure AD Connect synchronization works, which will help you manage Azure AD. By the end of the book, you have learned in detail about Active Directory and Azure AD, too.

Buy it now

You can purchase the ebook of the Active Directory Administration Cookbook (Second edition) here.