Office in two location. How to connect?

[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

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

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 [MVP]]

Also - Go easy on the crossposting. Most of those groups are irrelevant to
the question.

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