Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Service locations

This is the extension for the things I explained in the previous section. In a remote network, there can be different server roles and AD-integrated applications running. Similar to authentication requests, when users or computers try to use a service or application, it should be processed by the closest application server. It will improve the user experience and the reliability of the application or the services. When it's via a slow link, it does have lots of dependencies and performance-related limitations. In order to do this, there should be a way to process these service requests and point users to the closest servers.

The answer to all the aforementioned requirements is the AD site and related components. These allow ...