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Active Directory, 3rd Edition
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Active Directory, 3rd Edition

by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
January 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
27h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Summary

Security is always important, and when access to your organization's network is concerned, it's paramount. We hope this chapter has given you an understanding of how permission to access can be allowed or denied to entire domains or individual properties of a single object. Auditing is also part of security, and having mechanisms already designed—so that they can be constantly working or dropped in when required—is the best way to keep track of such a system.

Assigning permission and auditing entries to an object appears to be a simple subject on the surface. However, once you start delving into the art of setting permissions and auditing entries, it quickly becomes obvious how much there is to consider. Global design is the necessary first step.

Although expanding your tree later by adding extra containers is rarely a problem, in a large tree it makes sense to have some overall guidelines or rules that allow you to impose a sense of structure on the whole process of design and redesign. Ideally, the golden rules and tables that we created should allow you to plan and implement sensible permissions schemes, which was the goal of the chapter.

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