Office in two location. How to connect?

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Citimouse

Hi All,

I have a problem and hope anyone can help me.

Our office is going to expand to another unit in the building. The new
office will be on a different level as the current one.

I will need to setup a network in the new office. However, I am hesitant on
the implementation of it. Our preference is to try to keep the whole office
in the same domain. However, we also can accept setting up a different
domain in the new office. We are all using Windows 2000 servers.

Now I have 2 choices.

1. Setup a new domain and establish a trust between the new domain and the
current domain. This will involve new hardware cost and there will be
difficult maintaining 2 domains.

2. User will log on into current domain. We will need to open up the
firewall port on this and logging into the current domain in a different
location may take a long time.

Now I am quite confused on which option to choose. I would prefer option 1.
If we were to choice option 1, may I know what are the things I will need to
take note of? And what about option 2? Is it feasible and what to take note
of too?

Thank you.

Wei Yu
Singapore
 
Hi,

The solution to this problem is actually a modified version of #2. What you
want to do is setup at least one more domain controller in the new unit, and
mark it as a global catalog. Open AD Sites & Services, and create a new
site. Put the new DC(s) in this site. You'll also need to define a site-link
for connecting this site to the main office, and a cost value that
determines how often replication will take place.

The users in the second unit will automatically recognize that they're in
this site, and authenticate against their local DCs.

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--Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP
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Also - Go easy on the crossposting. Most of those groups are irrelevant to
the question.

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