...According to Microsoft TechNet with RODC organizations can easily deploy domain controllers in locations. Which security can be guaranteed. It differs by having better security, faster login time, and more efficient access to resource on the network. Background loading is a new feature on Windows Server 2008. When this service starts, it creates one or more threads of execution to load the zones that are stored in Active Directory. After the Global Names zone is deployed, when a Windows Vista-based DNS client attempts to resolve a single-label name, it appends the primary DNS suffix to the single-label name and submits the name query request to its DNS server. IPv6, which has been covered in previous editions of this column, is a new suite of Internet standard protocols. IPv6 is designed to address many of the issues of the current version—IPv4—such as address depletion, security, auto configuration, and the need for extensibility. One difference in IPv6 is that its addresses are 128 bits long, while IPv4 addresses are only 32 bits. IPv6 addresses are expressed in colon-hexadecimal notation. According to Microsoft TechNet. Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 promises to simplify secure authentication to multiple systems. It will also do the same for the cloud-based Microsoft portfolio. Active Directory Lightweight Directory was originally known as Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). It was first an...
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...Craig Stevens 5/13/2012 Prof. Edris Server 2008 Research Assignment 3 Windows 2008 has a laundry list of new and improved services to make an IT Admins job just that much simpler. For Example, Active Directory Federation Services which is a software component that can be installed on windows server 2008. Federation Services provides users with single-sign-on access. It uses a claims-based access control authorization model to maintain application security and implement federated identity ("Microsoft Server"). Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services is also an improved service. It is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol directory service designed for use with directory-enabled applications ("Server 2008"). It is also one of two identity providers that are supported by Active Directory Federation Services. Active Directory Certification Services provides customizable services for issuing and managing public key certificates used in software security systems that employ public key technologies ("ACDS Overview"). It contains certificate authorities which are broken down to Root and subordinate CAs. Then they issue certificates to users, computers, and services, and to manage certificate validity. With Active Directory Rights Management Service you can plan an organization's security strategy by protecting information through persistent usage policies, which remain with the information, no matter where it is moved. You can use ADRMS to help prevent sensitive information...
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...Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition. Choosing the correct windows edition will require the administrator or organization to understand the workload needs and requirements to ensure they choose the right operating system. Below is a list of several server roles available in installing Windows Server 2008 R2. Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) provides customizable services for creating and managing public key certificates used in software security systems employing public key technologies (Microsoft, 2014). Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) provide secure, structured, hierarchical data storage for objects in a network such as users, computers, printers, and services (Microsoft, 2014). Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) provides Web single-sign-on (SSO) technologies to authenticate a user to multiple Web applications by using a single user account (Microsoft, 2014). File Services provides technologies for storage management, file replication, distributed namespace management, fast file searching, and streamlined client access to files (Microsoft, 2014). Hyper-V provides the services that you can use to create and manage virtual...
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...Windows Server 2008 services: i. Active Directory Federation Services ii. Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services iii. Active Directory Certificate Services iv. Active Directory Rights Management Services i. Active Directory Federation Services is a standards-based service that allows the secure sharing of identity information between business partners (know as federations) across the extranet. When a user needs to access a Web application from one of its federation partners, the users own organization is responsible for authenticating the user and providing identity information in the form of "claims" to the partner that hosts the Web application. The hosting partner uses its trust policy to map the incoming claims to claims that are understood by its Web application, which uses the claims to make authorization decisions. ii. Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service designed for use with directory-enabled applications. A directory-enabled application is one that uses a directory, as opposed to a database or flat file, for its data store. iii. Active Directory Certificate Services is an Identity and Access Control security technology that provides customizable services for creating and managing public key certificates used in software security systems that employ public key technologies. iv. Active Directory Rights Management Services is an information protection...
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...rules to a central access policy in Active Directory. | Add-ADComputerServiceAccount | Adds one or more service accounts to an Active Directory computer. | Add-ADDomainControllerPasswordReplicationPolicy | Adds users, computers, and groups to the allowed or denied list of a read-only domain controller password replication policy. | Add-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicySubject | Applies a fine-grained password policy to one more users and groups. | Add-ADGroupMember | Adds one or more members to an Active Directory group. | Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership | Adds a member to one or more Active Directory groups. | Add-ADResourcePropertyListMember | Adds one or more resource properties to a resource property list in Active Directory. | Clear-ADAccountExpiration | Clears the expiration date for an Active Directory account. | Clear-ADClaimTransformLink | Removes a claims transformation from being applied to one or more cross-forest trust relationships in Active Directory. | Disable-ADAccount | Disables an Active Directory account. | Disable-ADOptionalFeature | Disables an Active Directory optional feature. | Enable-ADAccount | Enables an Active Directory account. | Enable-ADOptionalFeature | Enables an Active Directory optional feature. | Get-ADAccountAuthorizationGroup | Gets the accounts token group information. | Get-ADAccountResultantPasswordReplicationPolicy | Gets the resultant password replication policy for an Active Directory account. | Get-ADAuthenticationPolicy...
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...Assignment Robert Collazo Rasmussen College What steps are required in the planning and design of this domain infrastructure? Determine the Number of Forests. This step involves determining whether one or multiple forests are required to meet the organization’s objectives. Determine the Number of Domains. This step involves determining the number of domains that are required to meet the organization’s objectives. Assign Domain Names. This step involves assigning names to each of the domains. Select the Forest Root Domain. This step involves selecting the forest root domain. Determine Domain Controller Placement. This step involves deciding where domain controller resources will be placed for each domain in each forest. Determine Operations Master Role Placement. This step involves deciding the placement of the operations master roles for the forest and each domain. Determine Domain Controller Configuration. This step involves determining the disk space, memory, processor, and the network requirements for each domain controller. How would you implement and configure the AD domain for these offices? When implementing AD for these offices I would configure first a forest or domain. Then I would configure trust, sites, and active directory replication. Then I would configure the global catalog and master operations. What would you implement to allow access between domains? Which type would you recommend and why? Selective authentication By creating Selective authentication...
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...Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Judith Che Strayer University of Maryland Author Note Judith Che, Strayer University of Maryland. Any questions regarding this article should be address to Judith Che. Strayer University Maryland, White Marsh, MD 21085. Company’s today relay on good networking in order for their business to grow and succeed. A system engineer requires the ability, knowledge, and skill to plan and manage today’s networking which faces an ever-increasing variety of applications. We need to be skilled and informed to manage a network running Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. Present day networking administrators have difficulties ensuring that network resources are available to users when access is needed and securing the network in such a way that available resources are accessible to the proper user with the proper permission. We will have to solve networking problems including troubleshooting, configuration, installation, administration, and managing element. Starting from choosing the best Windows Server 2003 Edition that will meet the company’s needs in terms of price, performance and features; work group woes, name resolution nightmares and DNS name conflicts to server security. These problems can be solved with proper planning, managing, and designing a day-to-day administration of an Active Directory domain within their Windows Server 2003 network environment. We predict that implementing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory will beat and exceed...
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...The text below should be in Lesson 2 on page 22 of the Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration, Exam 70-640 textbook. Updates to the text appear in a blue font. Introducing the Server Manager The Bottom Line Before you begin working in Windows Server 2008, you need to be familiar with the central administrative interface. When you boot up a Windows Server 2008 server, you will see a window similar to that shown in Figure 2-1. Figure 2-1 Server Manager Windows Server 2008 provides a new unified tool for administering all aspects of a particular server. When a Windows Server 2008 server boots for the first time, you will see the Initial Configuration Tasks window that allows you to perform initial configuration tasks, such as setting the computer name and configuring the Windows Firewall. You can add roles to a 2008 server from the Initial Configuration Tasks (ICT) interface or from the Server Manager console in the Administrative Tools folder. From here, you can add and remove different server roles (such as the DNS server role or the Active Directory Domain Services role), as well as perform system diagnostics; configure system services, such as the Windows Firewall; and drill down into specific administrative tools, such as the DNS Management Console or Active Directory Users and Computers. In computers, best practices are guidelines that are considered the ideal way to configure a server. Best practice violations can result in poor performance, poor reliability...
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...Riordan Active Directory Migration Tyler Dresslar POS 421 September 3, 2012 R.Chung Riordan Active Directory Migration Introduction With regards to Riordan Manufacturing acquiring new severs with Active Directory Technology, the company must look at migrating to Windows Server 2008 R2 in order facilitate the streamlining of work for the Information Technology Department. Moving to Active Directory will save Riordan TIME and MONEY, the benefits of such a move and implementation will be explained in the following paragraphs. Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services are the foundation for distributed networks built on Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating systems that use domain controllers. Active Directory Domain Services provide secure, structured, hierarchical data storage for objects in a network such as users, computers, printers, and services. Active Directory Domain Services provide support for locating and working with these objects. Windows 2000 Server and later operating systems provide a user interface for users and administrators to work with the objects and data in Active Directory Domain Services. Network administrators write scripts and applications that access Active Directory Domain Services to automate common administrative tasks, such as adding users and groups, managing printers, and setting permissions for network resources. Independent software vendors and end-user developers can use Active...
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...ACTIVE DIRECTORY WORKING WITH SITES CLASS NOTES NT1330 MR. GRAHAM 10/14/13 Sites overview Sites in Active Directory® represent the physical structure, or topology, of your network. Active Directory uses topology information, stored as site and site link objects in the directory, to build the most efficient replication topology. You use Active Directory Sites and Services to define sites and site links. A site is a set of well-connected subnets. Sites differ from domains; sites represent the physical structure of your network, while domains represent the logical structure of your organization. Using sites Sites help facilitate several activities within Active Directory, including: * Replication. Active Directory balances the need for up-to-date directory information with the need for bandwidth optimization by replicating information within a site more frequently than between sites. You can also configure the relative cost of connectivity between sites to further optimize replication. * Authentication. Site information helps make authentication faster and more efficient. When a client logs on to a domain, it first searches its local site for a domain controller to authenticate against. By establishing multiple sites, you can ensure that clients authenticate against domain controllers nearest to them, reducing authentication latency and keeping traffic off WAN connections. * Active Directory-enabled services. Active Directory-enabled services can leverage site...
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...their parent domains. | | Definition False | | | Term You can drag and drop leaf objects, such as users and computers, between OUs, but not between domains. | | Definition TRUE | | | Term Unlike organizational units, you cannot assign Group Policy settings to computer objects, nor can you delegate their administration. | | Definition TRUE | | | Term When you want to grant a collection of users permission to access a network resource, such as a file system share or a printer, you can assign permissions to an organizational unit. | | Definition FALSE | | | Term Active Directory is one of the easiest technologies to test because an isolated lab environment usually can emulate many of the factors that can affect the performance of a directory service. | | Definition FALSE | | | Term When you want to grant a collection of users permission to access a network resource, such as a file system share or a printer, you can assign permissions to an organizational unit. | | Definition FALSE | | | Term Active Directory is one of the easiest technologies to test because an isolated lab environment usually can emulate many of the factors that can affect the performance of a directory service. | | Definition FALSE | | | Term Active Directory was first introduced in which operating system? | | Definition Windows 2000 Server | | | Term Where do users log in when joining an Active Directory domain? | | Definition domain | | ...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Active Directory POS 421 Riordan Manufacturing Active Directory Riordan Manufacturing or “RM” is a company that operates throughout the world and has offices all throughout the North American continent as well as China. With such a broad base of operation, RM requires a means to make communication and operations streamline while still allowing individual plants the ability to tap into resources necessary to complete their job. Looking back at past operations, RM has run into many problems that limited their ability to communicate effectively between individual plants. By implementing a Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory, many of the problems that have been evident will no longer exist. Many of the mundane and cumbersome operations that often cause issues can be eliminated by changing these functions into less complex tasks as noted in an article about Active Directory, “A directory service presents the opportunity to consolidate the number of repositories in use and realize a number of benefits in doing so: reduced administrative overheads, enhanced operational efficiency and tighter control over the security of user information,” (Mohamed. 2005) RM’s corporate headquarters located in San Jose California will be the focal point of consolidation efforts. The departments and facilities will fall under the headquarters plant. In essence our goal is to create a tree utilizing various grouping to help streamline the flow of information between...
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...Project- Windows 2012 Management 12/5/14 Active Directory is a directory service that Microsoft developed for Windows domain networks and is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services. An Active Directory domain controller authenticates and allows all users and computers in a Windows domain type network- assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software. When a user logs into a computer that is part of a Windows domain, Active Directory checks the submitted password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user. Active Directory makes use of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) versions 2 and 3, Microsoft's version of Kerberos, and DNS. Active Directory, like many information-technology efforts, originated out of a democratization of design using Request for Comments or RFCs. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which oversees the RFC process, has accepted numerous RFCs initiated by widespread participants. Active Directory incorporates decades of communication technologies into the overarching Active Directory concept then makes improvements upon them. Microsoft previewed Active Directory in 1999, it was first released with Windows 2000 Server edition, and revised it to extend functionality and improve administration in Windows Server 2003. Additional improvements came with Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows...
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...Microsoft 70-640 TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring Version: 30.6 Microsoft 70-640 Exam Topic 1, Exam Set 1 QUESTION NO: 1 You work as the network administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network has a domain named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network run Windows Server 2008. Only one Active-Directory integrated zone has been configured in the ABC.com domain. ABC.com has requested that you configure DNS zone to automatically remove DNS records that are outdated. What action should you consider? A. You should consider running the netsh /Reset DNS command from the Command prompt. B. You should consider enabling Scavenging in the DNS zone properties page. C. You should consider reducing the TTL of the SOA record in the DNS zone properties page. D. You should consider disabling updates in the DNS zone properties page. Answer: B Explanation: In the scenario you should enable scavenging through the zone properties because scavenging removes the outdated DNS records from the DNS zone automatically. You should additionally note that patience would be required when enabling scavenging as there are some safety valves built into scavenging which takes long to pop. Reference: http://www.gilham.org/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=aab85845-88d2-4091-8088a6bbce0a4304&ID=211 QUESTION NO: 2 You work as the network administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network has a domain named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network run Windows Server 2008. The ABC.com network...
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...applications to store and retrieve data via indexed and sequential access. Numerous Windows components take advantage of ESE, such as desktop and directory. Source: https://www.google.com/#q=What+is+extensible+storage+engine+(ESE) Source: 2. Does Active directory offer any fault tolerance, if so what kind? Yes. In any Active Directory deployment, more than one server with the Active Directory Domain Services role deployed is recommended for fault tolerance. In fact, at least two Domain Controllers are recommended as a best practice for every Domain deployed in an Active Directory forest. The reason for this is to ensure that more than one server exists at any given time with a copy of the Active Directory database. Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/active-directory-virtualization- best-practices/ Yes. For fault tolerance, you should always deploy new domains with at least two domain controllers. If you only have a single domain controller for a given domain and the domain controller fails, you will be forced to restore from a backup. This is easily avoided by deploying a second domain controller. Source: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.itt- tech.edu/eds/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzU2NTg4MV9fQU41?sid=b160d547-da82- ...
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