Active Directory Basics

This room will introduce the basic concepts and functionality provided by Active Directory.

tryhackme active directory red team basic

Jan 5, 2025

Task 1: Introduction

Q1: Click and continue learning!

Ans1: No answer needed

Task 2: Windows Domains

Q1: In a Windows domain, credentials are stored in a centralised repository called…

Ans1: Active Directory

Q2: The server in charge of running the Active Directory services is called…

Ans2: Domain Controller

Task 3: Active Directory

Q1: Which group normally administrates all computers and resources in a domain?

Ans1: Domain Admins

Q2: What would be the name of the machine account associated with a machine named TOM-PC?

Ans2: TOM-PC$

Q3: Suppose our company creates a new department for Quality Assurance. What type of containers should we use to group all Quality Assurance users so that policies can be applied consistently to them?

Ans3: Organizational Units

Task 4: Managing Users in AD

Q1: What was the flag found on Sophie’s desktop?

4.1_1

4.1_2

4.1_3

4.1_4

4.1_5

4.1_6

4.1_7

4.1_8

Ans1: THM{thanks_for_contacting_support}

Q2: The process of granting privileges to a user over some OU or other AD Object is called…

Ans2: delegation

Task 5: Managing Computers in AD

Q1: After organising the available computers, how many ended up in the Workstations OU?

5.1_1

Ans1: 7

Q2: Is it recommendable to create separate OUs for Servers and Workstations? (yay/nay)

Ans2: yay

Task 6: Group Policies

Q1: What is the name of the network share used to distribute GPOs to domain machines?

Ans1: sysvol

Q2: Can a GPO be used to apply settings to users and computers? (yay/nay)

Ans2: yay

Task 7: Authentication Methods

Q1: Will a current version of Windows use NetNTLM as the preferred authentication protocol by default? (yay/nay)

Ans1: nay

Q2: When referring to Kerberos, what type of ticket allows us to request further tickets known as TGS?

Ans2: Ticket Granting Ticket

Q3: When using NetNTLM, is a user’s password transmitted over the network at any point? (yay/nay)

Ans3: nay

Task 8: Trees, Forests and Trusts

Q1: What is a group of Windows domains that share the same namespace called?

Ans1: Tree

Q2: What should be configured between two domains for a user in Domain A to access a resource in Domain B?

Ans2: A Trust Relationship

Task 9: Conclusion