As you know that in a Windows based domain system, active directory is the central management tool that provides access controls to users to the servers or to use any services offered by any specific servers. So, security in Windows based infrastructure should start with securing the active directory. Though most of the part of securing an active directory process focus on security settings of the server, but there are some other components in a network environment – DNS, File server etc. – that also play a vital role when we consider about securing an active directory based environment. More or less, you need to know and test the following settings to check up how secure active directory configuration are windows server configurations and the services.
