Best Practices for Setting up a Windows 2012 R2 STD Domain Controller in a Remote Site

So I'm looking for an article or writeup similar to the "Adding Domain Controllers in Remote Sites" TechNet article but for Windows Server 2012 STD R2. Here is my scenario:
1. I want to setup the domain controller at Site A where the primary domain controller is located. The primary domain controller is Windows Server 2008 R2.
2. Once the DC is setup I plan on leaving it on our network for a few days before shipping it to remote Site B for installation
Other key items:
1. The remote Site B will have a different IP range than Site A but will be connected to Site A via a single VPN tunnel. All the DCs that replicate with each other are on the same domain.
2. The 2012 DC that I setup for Site B (same domain in same forest) will be a DHCP, DNS, and WSUS server all replicating to the primary DC at Site A
Questions:
1. What items can I setup while it's at Site A without effecting or conflicting with the existing network and domain controller? Can I setup a scope once the DHCP role is added?
2. All of our DCs replicate through Sites and Services, do I have to manually add this to our primary DC for the new DC going to remote Site B? Or when does this happen automatically when I promote the DC?
All and all I'm just looking for a list of Best Practices for 2012 or a Step by Step Guide. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
Thanks for your posting.
When you install AD DS in the hub or staging site, disconnect the installed domain controller, and then ship the computer to the remote site, you are disconnecting a viable domain controller from the replication topology.
For more and detail information, please refer to:
Best Practices for Adding Domain Controllers in Remote Sites
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794962(v=ws.10).aspx
Regards.
Vivian Wang

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Hi Ben,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Please check below blogs and document which helps to understand some basic requirement and to setup the new environment with proper guided manner.
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(Doc)
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I agree with this proposed solution as well:
Primary DNS: Locally assigned IP of the DC (i.e. 192.168.1.5)
Secondary DNS: The assigned IP of another DC (i.e. 192.168.1.6)
Tertiary DNS: empty
One thing to note, in this configuration the Best Practice Analyzer will throw the error:
The network adapter Local Area Connection 2 does not list the loopback IP address as a DNS server, or it is configured as the first entry.
Even if you add the loopback address as a Tertiary DNS address the error will still appear. The only way I've seen this error eliminated is to add the loopback address as the second entry in DNS, so:
Primary DNS: The assigned IP of another DC (i.e. 192.168.1.6)
Secondary DNS: 127.0.0.1
Tertiary DNS: empty
I'm not comfortable not having the local DC/DNS address listed so I'm going with the solution Ace offers.
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Best practices for setting environment based static variables?

I have a set of static string variables that hold the url location of modules in a project. These locations change depending on whether I'm building for development, staging or production.
What's the best way to set static variables in this way?

I don't know if this is best practice, but here's the solution I've come up with.
The root domain is accessible within the swf via a node on a loaded xml file. So I created a simple method that sets a url variable based on that domain node.
The domain-based url variable is then used within the static string variables that define the location of the modules.
Simplified like so:
var domain:String = xml.node.value;
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          case stagingUrl:
              loc = "pathToAmazonStagingBucket";
               break;
          case productionUrl:
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