Windows Server 2012 R2 Inside Out: Services, Security, & Infrastructure

Chapter 18. Active Directory site administration

Managing sites and subnets

Managing site links and inter-site replication

Monitoring and troubleshooting replication

In this chapter I discuss the administration of sites, subnets, site links, and related components. Active Directory sites are used to control directory replication traffic and to isolate logon authentication traffic between physical network locations. Every site has one or more subnets associated with it. Ideally, each subnet that is part of a site should be connected by reliable high-speed links. Any physical location connected over slow or unreliable links should be part of a separate site, and these individual sites are linked to other sites using site links.

Managing sites ...