
Study deploying and managing Active Directory domain services across premise and cloud. Build skills to configure on premise Windows Server, AD, hybrid AD Connect and Azure AD, disaster recovery planning.
Explore the structure of Active Directory partitions, including configuration, schema, domain, and application naming contexts, and use NTDS util and replication tools to monitor CPU, disk, memory, and network performance.
Install Azure AD Connect with a dedicated service account, secure global administrator rights, and on-premise domain/enterprise admin rights; validate UPN with ID Fix and use Add Modify.
Explain how group policy objects store metadata in the group policy container and settings in the group policy template, with version numbers in GPO.ini guiding client updates.
Understand group policy processing for a contractor OU, including blocked inheritance, enforced precedence, and how link order resolves conflicts among new password policy, new demo policy, and new test policy.
Demonstrates the two main types of group policy, computer configuration and user configuration, and shows how to configure them in Group Policy Management Editor and apply them to containers.
Explore how groups simplify access management and policy application in Windows Active Directory, detailing security and distribution groups and the scope of local, domain local, global, and universal groups.
Learn how Azure AD Connect links on-premises Active Directory to Azure AD for sync and access to cloud apps, and compare authentication methods: Password hash sync, pass-through, and federation.
Domain controllers are the core of Active Directory, authenticating users and computers and housing the domain database; the lecture covers deployment, upgrades, replication, and backups.
Learn how to identify FSMO (operations master) roles across your forest with PowerShell and snap-ins, and perform graceful transfers or forcible seizures using Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole or NTDSUtil.
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