Site-level policies

Something that is sort of outside the scope of this book, but is relevant here, is Active Directory Sites and Services. Inside any Active Directory environment, your DCs will automatically have this tool installed, called AD Sites and Services. The purpose here is to define your physical locations of the network, sites, if you will. The many small businesses have only a single site, and often they never have to even open this tool. Makes sense, as everything is always connected to the same site. However, as soon as you grow your business and expand to a second location, the network typically gets much more complex, and you now have IP subnets that are different between the two sites. Active Directory Sites are defined ...

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