2023 - Active Directory Summer Workbook - English version

Inspired by summer workbook, this series is designed to help you deepen or revisit your knowledge and master the nuances of Active Directory.

Each tip covers a key concept, a feature, a best practice, or a tool, all presented in a simple and accessible manner.

This workbook hasn't necessarily been just about simple concepts .

Some days might will be seemed challenging. Indeed, I've juggled between simple topics and more complex ones.

Rather than sticking to basic reviews, I sometimes want to highlight less common, less documented themes.

Despite the apparent ease of setting up an AD with a few clicks using 'Next,' far too many people think that AD is easy.

The reality is quite different, and that's what I wanted to emphasize.

Happy learning!

1: Read permissions in Active Directory

2: Analyze AD permissions

3: AD Partitions

4: AD Schema

5: Enforce a GPO

6: Containers and Organizational Units

7: Default locations for AD users and computers

8: The domain administrator account

9: Active Directory Administrative Center

10: Using the domain administrator account

11: Installation language

12: Computer passwords in AD

13: Authenticated Users

14: Tracking AD changes through replication metadata

15: Replicating Directory Changes permissions

16: AGDLP Method

17: Identifying attack paths

18: Evaluating your AD security level

19: Protection from accidental deletion

20: Authentication with old password

21: Sysinternals Active Directory Explorer

22: AD dynamic objects

23: Temporary membership in an AD Group

24: Password Policy via GPO

25: AdminSDHolder and SDProp

26: Property Sets

27: The Property Set Personal Information and its impact on security and governance

28: AD Tier model

29: Final day