How to do it...

You can take advantage of manually-created site link bridges after you disable the Bridge all site links option.

To create a site-link bridge using Active Directory Sites and Services, perform these steps:

1. Open Active Directory Sites and Services (dssite.msc).
2. In the left navigation pane, expand the Sites node.
3. In the left navigation pane, expand the Inter-Site Transports node.
4. Right-click the IP node and select New Site Link Bridge… from the menu.
   The New Object-Site Link Bridge appears.
5. Select site links from the list of site links underneath Site links not in this site link bridge:.
6. Click Add >> to add the site links to the list underneath Site links in this site link bridge:.
7. Click OK.

To create a site link bridge using the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell, run the following lines of PowerShell:

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

New-ADReplicationSiteLinkBridge "SiteLinkBridgeName" -SiteLinksIncluded SiteLink1,SiteLink2

The site links can be a DN or a name.