Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Active Directory sites

The Active Directory site defines a physical topology of the network. Sites can be separate buildings in a campus network, with the branch office in a separate city or even in a separate country. For example, the head office of Rebeladmin Corp. is located in London, UK. It runs a few domain controllers (DC01 and DC02) within its physical network. It uses IP address allocation for the network with the subnets of 192.168.148.0/24, 10.10.10.0/24, and 172.25.16.0/24. Due to the business requirements, the company opened a branch office in Toronto, Canada. It got its own domain controllers (DC03 and DC04) running, but logically, it is in the same Active Directory forest and domain. Both networks are interconnected with a ...