How to Create and Configure Sites and Subnets ?

Monday, August 24, 2009

To use sites to manage replication between sites, you create additional sites and subnets and delegate control of sites. Creating a site involves providing a name for the new site and associating the site with a site link. To create sites, you must log on as a member of the Enterprise Admins group or the Domain Admins group in the forest root domain.
To create a site, perform the following steps:
1. Open Active Directory Sites and Services from the Administrative Tools menu.
2. In the console tree, right-click Sites, and then click New Site.
3. In the Name box, type the name of the new site.
4. Click a site link object, and then click OK twice.
To create a subnet object, perform the following steps:
1. In Active Directory Sites and Services, in the console tree, double-click Sites, right-click Subnets, and then click New Subnet.
2. In the Address box, type the subnet IP address.
3. In the Mask box, type the subnet mask that describes the range of addresses for the subnet.
4. Select a site to associate the subnet with, and then click OK.
To associate a site with a subnet object, perform the following steps:
1. In Active Directory Sites and Services, expand Sites, expand Subnets, and then in the console tree, right-click the subnet that you want to associate the site with, and then click Properties.
2. On the General page, in the Site box, click the site that you want to associate with this subnet, and then click OK.