Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Sites
A site is made up of a site name; subnets within that site; links and bridges to other sites; site-based policies; and, of course, the servers, workstations, and services residing within that site. Some of the components, such as the servers and workstations, are dynamically assigned to a site based on their network configuration and the site’s definition. Domain controller services and Distributed File System (DFS) targets are also assigned to sites based on the network configuration of the server on which the resources are hosted.
Each AD site is typically configured to contain resources that have high-bandwidth connectivity between them. The sites can contain one more physical location depending on the network architecture. Sites can ...
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