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Published inJul 2022
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Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer
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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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What do Active Directory sites do?

Active Directory sites govern access and replication.

Active Directory's DClocator process allows for devices to find the nearest domain controllers. By default, these would be the domain controllers in the current Active Directory site where the device resides. The way the device knows in which site it resides is derived from its Internet Protocol (IP) address, which matches a subnet, as defined for the Active Directory site.

When there are no domain controllers in an Active Directory site, the site link costs define the nearest domain controllers to DClocator. The domain controllers in the site connected with the lowest cost will be returned to the device.

Domain controllers in different Active Directory sites replicate partitions over the same Active Directory site links through bridgehead servers; these are domain controllers that take on the additional role of replicating over the site link to the bridgehead server on the other...

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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803242507

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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
Read more about Sander Berkouwer