How-to guides

• Access control

  Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) permissions and roles for Managed Microsoft AD.

• Adding and removing regions

  Add or remove domain controllers from regions.

• Connecting to a Managed Microsoft AD domain

  Use RDP to connect to your managed Active Directory domain.

• Configuring MongoDB

  Configure MongoDB to authenticate with Managed Microsoft AD.

• Creating a group Managed Service Account

  Create a group Managed Service Account (gMSA).

• Creating a one-way trust

  Establish trust between Managed Microsoft AD and your on-premises domain.

• Deploying an Active Directory resource forest

  Set up a VPC and configure firewall rules that conform to security best-practices, use Managed Microsoft AD to deploy Active Directory, and create a management VM and join it to the domain.

• Listing, describing, and deleting domains

  List your existing Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory domains, get information about them, and delete domains you no longer need.

• Managing Active Directory objects

  Manage the Active Directory objects for your Managed Microsoft AD domain.

• Managing trusts

  Manage a one-way trust relationship between an on-premises domain and a Managed Microsoft AD domain.

• Resolving queries for non-Managed AD objects in VPC networks

  Configure DNS forwarding from Google Cloud so that queries for Managed Microsoft AD resources located in another domain succeed.

• Using the delegated administrator account

  Use the Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory delegated administrator account to manage domains.

• Using Microsoft SQL Server

  Add accounts so you can use Microsoft SQL Server with Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory

• Using VPC Service Controls

  Use VPC Service Controls to provide additional security for Managed Microsoft AD service and resources.