Building Sites

After you have moved from the design phase to the implementation phase of the project, sites are built in the following manner.

• Create the sites, as defined in the Active Directory design.

• Create the subnets that are contained in each site.

• Group the subnets in their appropriate sites.

• Move DCs to their appropriate sites. This site also contains the subnet that the DC is on. As DCs are created using DCpromo, they need to be moved to their appropriate site.

• Create site link connectors between sites, as defined in the Active Directory design. Define the transport, schedule, and cost for each site link connector.

Designing the components of Active Directory's physical topology is as important to how it meets your organization's needs as the logical, or domain, topology. Where sites are placed, how they are connected, and the services provided by the DCs within them, all contribute to the efficiency and reliability of Active Directory.