Home Active Directory (III) 3. Configuring Sites and Managing Replication 3.4 Creating Site Links and Site Link Bridges

3.4 Creating Site Links and Site Link Bridges

Marţi, 18 August 2009 16:33 Eugen Morar
Email
In this video i will show you how to create Site Links and Site Link Bridges.


 
In this exercise, you will create site links and site link bridges for the sites you created earlier.
  1. In the Active Directory Sites And Services tool, expand Sites, Inter-site Transports, IP object. Right-click the DEFAULTIPSITELINK item in the right pane and select Rename. Rename the object to CorporateWAN.
  2. Right-click the CorporateWAN link and select Properties. In the CorporateWAN Properties dialog box, type T1 Connecting Corporate and NewYork Offices for the description. Remove the Austin site from the link by highlighting Austin and clicking Remove. For the Cost value, type 50, and specify that replication should occur every 60 minutes. To create the site link, click OK.
  3. Right-click the IP folder and select New Site Link. On the New Object–Site Link dialog box, name the link CorporateDialup. Add the Austin and CorporateHQ sites to the site link and click OK.
  4. Right-click the CorporateDialup link and select Properties. In the CorporateDialup Properties dialog box, type ISDN Dialup between Corporate and Austin office for the description. Set the Cost value to 100, and specify that replication should occur every 120 minutes. To specify that replication should occur only during certain times of the day, click the Change Schedule button.
  5. On the Schedule For CorporateDialup dialog box, highlight the area between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. for the days Monday through Friday, and click the Replication Not Available option. This will ensure that replication traffic is minimized during normal work hours. Click OK to accept the new schedule, then OK again to create the site link.
  6. Right-click the IP object, and select New Site Link Bridge. In the New Object–Site Link Bridge dialog box, name the site link bridge CorporateBridge. Note that the CorporateDialup and CorporateWAN site links are already added to the site link bridge. Since there must be at least two site links in each bridge, you will not be able to remove these links. Click OK to create the site link bridge.