Re: Login over WAN
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Sites are a preference tool, so it would make sense to associate the subnet
with the central site and after replication demote the local site DC. Was
there a question about doing it this way or does it not meet the
requirements?
Al
"KenMcD" <KenMcD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:13A3E4F8-DF5C-4F85-A887-3ABEC250BD35@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My company has about 20 remote offices with between 3 to 12 people in each
> office. Each site is connected via a priviate (secure) IP network . We
> have
> domain controllers at each of these sites and I've been tasked with
> removing
> them. We're running Windows 2k3 AD.
>
> How would I set up my remote offices to login to a domain controller
> across
> the WAN - other than using RAS VPN as a solution? Is there a way to
> preserve
> the existing sites and just have them login over the IP WAN?
>
> thanks,
>
> Ken
.
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