Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Turning Off Site Link Bridging
By default, all site links are bridged, which means that all DCs in every site can communicate directly with any other DC through any of a series of site links. Such a bridge has the advantage of introducing redundancy into an environment; for example, if Site A has a link with Site B, and Site B is linked to Site C, servers in Site C can communicate directly with Site A.
Sometimes it is preferable to turn off this type of replication. For example, your organization might require that certain DCs never communicate directly with other DCs. In this case, site bridging can be turned off through the following procedure:
1. From Server Manager, click Tools, Active Directory Sites and Services.
2. Navigate to Sites\Inter-Site ...
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