Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Utilizing Preferred Site Link Bridgeheads

Often, it becomes necessary to segregate all outgoing or incoming intersite traffic to a single DC, thus controlling the flow of traffic and offloading the special processor requirements that are required for this functionality. This concept gave rise to preferred site link bridgeheads, DCs in a site that are specifically assigned to be the end or starting point of a site link. The preferred bridgehead servers will subsequently be the handler for all traffic for that specific site link.

Multiple site link bridgeheads can be easily defined in AD DS. The following example illustrates how this is accomplished. In these steps, Server2 is added as a preferred site link bridgehead for the site link named Site1-Site2: ...