Branch office, Exchange, site-to-site, ISA server, Recommendations

[Interflex]

I currently have one office with about 30 users and we will be opening
an office soon with another 30 users in another physical location. I
currently have one domain, use ISA server, and use Exchange 2000 for
email.

Does anyone have recommendations how I can connect the new office to
the current office? Do I require a trusted domain, child domain, or
are they on the same domain? Do I need another Exchange server the
remote office? Any advice would be appreciated.

From what I have researched I should be able to setup another ISA
server at
the remote location and connect both ISA servers over the WAN using
VPN. I
would then make the new file server at the remote location a site of
the
current domain. So basically at the remote location I would require
two
servers to start off with, one ISA and one for the file server.

If anyone has other suggestions it would be muchly appreciated or
point me
to where Microsoft has a best practices for this type of
configuration.

 

[Ryan Hanisco]

Interflex,

First some questions:
1. From the products you've listed, are you using Small Business Server or
full products?
2. What is the connection speed and medium between the sites??
3. What is the volatility of the environment? Create new users often?
4. What is your mail volume? Everyone gets a few mails a day or are you
transferring huge mail volumes?
5. How many servers at your core?
6. Will the remote site manage their own users?
7. Is the remote site across a political boundary? In the EU, China,
something like that?