Replication is an important functionality that keeps all DCs up to speed on network updates. To learn more about replication based on the site topology, check this article. Active Directory Sites and Services is an administrative tool that is used to manage sites and their related components. Although this GUI is almost irrelevant in a small, single-site network with just a few domain controllers, large networks with many sites, this snap-in becomes one of the essential administrative tools.
The following are the administrative tasks that can be performed:. The following is a partial list of tasks that can be managed using Active Directory Sites and Services:. Now that an AD site other than the default site has been created, a subnet that specifies the site boundaries has to be created as well.
The following steps illustrate how you can create a subnet:. You now have created a new site link. To configure the properties of the new site link, you can follow these steps:. Creating AD sites has multiple benefits for an organization. AD replication is of two types: intra-site and inter-site replication. This would require a lot of bandwidth. Inter-site replication does not require as much bandwidth as intra-site replication. Another benefit of using sites is that with careful design of sites, you can ensure that logon traffic travels only to local DCs and not remote DCs in another site.
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Recent Posts. Active Directory Sites February 4, What are AD sites? What are subnets? What are AD site Links? What is Active Directory Sites and Services? The following are the administrative tasks that can be performed: Creating a new site and configuring replication within the site Configuring directory service DS objects and licensing site settings Adding servers, domain controllers, intersite links, and subnets to a site Moving and repairing domain controllers Delegating control of a site Configuring Active Directory Sites and Services The following is a partial list of tasks that can be managed using Active Directory Sites and Services: Creating sites Creating subnets and associating subnets with sites Creating site links Configuring site properties Moving servers between sites.
Creating a new subnet from the Active Directory Sites and Services window. Creating a new site link. Related posts. Active Directory Fundamentals Recent Posts. What is Active Directory? February 4, Security Account Manager February 4, Active Directory Objects Recent Posts. A global catalog that contains information about every object in the directory.
This allows users and administrators to find directory information regardless of which domain in the directory actually contains the data.
For more information about the global catalog, see Global catalog. A query and index mechanism , so that objects and their properties can be published and found by network users or applications. For more information about querying the directory, see Searching in Active Directory Domain Services. A replication service that distributes directory data across a network. All domain controllers in a domain participate in replication and contain a complete copy of all directory information for their domain.
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