From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Management and Implementation

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- One of the advantages of Active Directory Replication is the ability to control it through Active Directory sites. First of off, what is an Active Directory site? I'm going to say this a couple of times, so don't worry about writing it down the first time or the second time. You can write it down the third time. This is kind of like one of those infomercial things, if you wake up in the middle of the night and you happen to leave the TV on and you kinda crack out of your eye going, "What the heck is that?" This is Rick's infomercial on what an Active Directory site is. An Active Directory site is one or more well-connected, high-speed, persistent, reliable IP subnets. Let me say it again, an Active Directory site is one or more well-connected, high-speed, persistent, reliable IP subnets. So now you can write it down. One or more well-connected. What's it mean by well-connected? We're in a routing network. We have the ability to be able to resolve across maybe routers or across edge…

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