Recommendations

It is a recommended practice to design Active Directory sites following these rules of thumb:

• Create one Active Directory site per location. If the bandwidth between locations is above 10 megabits and reliable, and you don't want to segment services or subnets, create one Active Directory site for these locations.
• Configure one Active Directory site link between two Active Directory sites.
• Configure a catch-all subnet (for instance, a 10.0.0.0/8 subnet) in your main location and create subnets with smaller ranges (for instance, 10.1.0.0/16 and 10.3.1.0/24 subnets) for other locations.
• Do not disable the Bridge all site links option for all IP-based site links and all Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)-based site links.
• Do not enable the Ignore schedules option for all IP-based site links.
• Keep the ISTG enabled.
• Keep the KCC enabled.
• Keep Strict Replication Consistency enabled.
• Define a process where networking administrators...