Active Directory Administration Cookbook

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When you rename an Active Directory site, you change the common name of the object of the Active Directory site. While this is not a problem with most software, such as System Center Configuration Manager, your organization might get in trouble with software that references Active Directory sites by their names and not their GUIDs.

An Active Directory site's location might be a field you'd want to use to define the physical location and/or network type of an Active Directory site. This way, when there is a problem with the Active Directory site, admins might make their way to the root cause, the core problem, and/or physical location faster. In multi-domain environments, it might be useful to denote the domain for which the ...