Mastering Active Directory

Managing sites

When the first domain controller is introduced into the infrastructure, the system creates its first site as Default-First-Site-Name. This can be changed based on the requirements. We can review the existing sites configuration using the following PowerShell cmdlet:

Get-ADReplicationSite -Filter *

It will list down the sites information for the AD infrastructure.

In our example, it only has the default Active Directory site. As the first step, I need to change it to a meaningful name, so we can assign objects and configurations accordingly. In order to do that, we can use the Rename-ADObject cmdlet:

Rename-ADObject -Identity "CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=rebeladmin,DC=com" -NewName "LondonSite" ...