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Published inJul 2022
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Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer
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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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Verifying your DNS domain name

Any hybrid identity journey starts with verifying your DNS domain name in Azure AD. This recipe explains how to do this.

Getting ready

If the organization uses the Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) feature, activate the Global administrator role or the Domain Name administrator role in advance.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps in the Azure AD Tenant:

  1. Navigate to https://aad.portal.azure.com in your browser.
  2. Sign in with an account that has the Global administrator role or the Domain Name administrator role assigned to it.
  3. Perform multi-factor authentication when prompted.
  4. In the left-hand navigation pane, click Azure Active Directory.
  5. In the Azure AD pane, click Custom domain names:

Figure 14.2 – Custom domain names in the Azure Active Directory admin center window

  1. In the top-level bar, click + Add custom domain. The Custom domain name blade appears on...
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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803242507

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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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