Active Directory Domain Service Deep Dive

"Azure AD is not AD in the cloud" I’ve said many times in past videos. But what IS AD then? Well in this video I answer that!

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These are always great videos. Thank you for the content

I really love you man <333

Thanks

I have been working with AD for more than half a year, but I am still confused. After looking at this picture, I suddenly understood what site link, PDC, and inter-domain replication are. Thank you John.

Fantastic overview John! Love the shirt!

Great video but I got very distracted by how swole you are

Love the shirt ♥

Awesome video.

Fantastic video !

Thanks John for your video I heard about your channel from one ofyour ex collogue while he was giving us windows 2022 training.

Thank you so much!

I think today this is a good starting point. NT? You go back. I was a part of upgrading Microsoft Datacenter from nt351 to 4.0. Bring back memories

Fancy lecture! Thanks John!!!

Thanks John - I found it really helpful to watch this prior to reading the Microsoft Online Docs for AD DS. It's much easier to visualize and digest all the minutia of the docs when you have the big picture to hang it on. I really appreciate your style and cadence as well.

Love this video! For someone who grew up with cloud being a mature offering and the preferred approach, for most use cases, this is really helpful to understand historic tech context!

Very informative & clear! Was happy to learn some of the AD services deployment details I missed earlier. Thank you!

This is amazing

Kerberos default accepted time difference should be 2 min not 5 min. Else good Explanation.

Edit: John was right it is 5min. My bad!

Life goals here: Knows what AD is and got the guns to stop you from questioning him

This was awesome !!! thank you for making this video, it really helped me understand AD without my eyes glazing over.

I live a breathe this stuff, and when this came up in my feed I thought it would be an interesting watch. Just have to say that never in a month of Sundays could I have put together such a clear and digestible explanation! Highly recommend this to anyone.

Love this. Always learning and always refreshing. Thanks for this one too, John.

This has taken me years to learn. Even though I use it on a daily basis, it's as if I was a taxi driver and drove passengers all over the city, yet this showed me the whole map of the city I've been driving for years. I havent seen all of your videos, but do you have a shirt that says "Bro do you even Azure?" (instead of lift).

I'm a long time AD admin/engineer/architect since the Windows 2000 days. Just wanted to say this was an excellent over view and I will be recommending it to some of my colleagues to better understand AD under the hood. I even learned a couple things I didn't know about!

Dear John, It has been a great idea to make this video. Thanks.

John you did a wonderful job making this video. 10/10 thank you much.

Holy Cow, I am new to Active Directory. I think I need a simpler course. LOL!

Brilliant refresher video, can't believe how much you got through in an hour, thanks so much. I also remember the BDC days! :)

Fantastic video John. I hope I had this video back in my time instead of 600 pages to prepare for the MCP path of MCSA. This will be definitely the video to share with some colleagues.

I want one of those T Shirts. Where did you get it from?

I been watching some of your other videos. Awesome work on explaining ad domain service.

before all this crap we had novell with ipx and no google lol

I am repeating myself but great video John !
One little question : you demonstrated Forest root trust between rood domain in the same forest.
Don't we say in that context ?
- Forest trust between different forests
- Tree-Root trust between root domain in the same forest ?

John, excellent video, very important knowledge for newer IT members that they may have missed if they started with the cloud. What do you think about doing a case study series where you take an existing lab network for the Justice League, with dc, exchange, sharepoint, file, rds, rras vpn, print services, and a workstation; and then use the series migrating the environment into modern AAD, MS365, Azure Files, AVD etc?

How would sites come into play if I have two sites connected by 20 Gb fiber with about 1-2 ms latency? Right now I have it architected as a single AD site and it's worked well but idk if anything of value would be gained by separating into different sites.

Thank you so much it's refreshed memory and removed dust :)

Excellent video again, this was for me the missing information about ADDS, very well explained

John, thank you so much for your time and effort to make these videos. Great information and I’ve learned so much from your content. Much appreciated!!!

Hello John could you share the tool you use to make red rectangle on the screen? Thank you!

Thanks John!!! great video

Love that fact that you're creating a vid about AD on your Azure channel! Most companies still run On-Prem or Hybrid so this stuff is important to know. As always you're rocking it hard. Thanks! 🤙

My college offers a Microsoft pathway for cybersecurity that dabbles with active directory and Azure but I'm already almost done with the cisco/network heavy pathway. Would you recommend learning AD and azure from third party sources/or on the job( if applicable) or formal education?

Brilliant overview of Active Directory. Well presented. Thanks for all the content you make.

John, you made me nostalgic while you were quoting Windows NT. This stuff is super awesome. I remembered my those days. I have a special place for AD.

Old school AD guy here. Cloud identity still makes my head spin. It's just so disjoined and difficult to get right when the on-prem environment is such a mess. Yes, 90% of AD implementations out there are a heap. They are over 2 decades old after all.

What? Just in time!!! In my new job I encountered some alerts related to AD that I have to investigate, and nothing bothers me more than doing something I don't understand, thank you very much for this!

John I wanted to replicate all of your mind database and partitions in my mind's domain controller.

Please do more videos for on-prem stuff

Ooo an Admin OU. Someone's got a DIAD tiering model in place!