Re: two offices
From: SuperGumby [SBS MVP] (not_at_your.nellie)
Date: 03/24/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:26:57 +1100
Only one SBS is allowed per LAN but the SBS can be master of as many vanilla
windows DC's as you have CALs for, additional DC's consume a single device
CAL each.
I should point out at this stage that a 2nd method is available, seperate
SBS's at the two sites in their own domains.
The question of VPN is definitely NOT off topic. Remote access to SBS has
always been high on our discussion list, RWW doesn't do away with the need
to VPN.
How to handle the VPN is defined by how you wish to set up each site and the
degree of control you wish to have over users, particularly in respect of
internet access. Most of our clients are fairly free with internet access,
relying on verbal agreement and common sense (sounds pretty silly when you
type that :).
We have a client using the described scenario to support a remote office in
Armidale calling into Sydney HQ (not sure, but I think it's about 1000km).
Both sites are on 512K SDSL. HQ has a simple NAT router in front of ISA on
SBS2000 so that ISA handles the VPN on this end. Armidale uses a VPN capable
SnapGear lite router to establish a PPTP tunnel to Sydney. This actually
means that internet access is more restrictive at HQ than the remote office,
but hey, it works and they're happy with it.
"Lucian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1325701c411d6$2a3b0100$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Supergumby,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Sounds like a great idea, but I
> thought small biz servers didn't like other domain
> controllers on the same network. I haven't played with
> it much, but I thought I read this somewhere.
>
> I know this is off topic, but do you have any preferences
> to VPN solutions between site1 and site2?
>
> Thanks for your input.
> Lucian
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I'd probably put an SBS at site1 and W2K3 server as an
> aditional DC at
> >site2.
> >
> >Give site two users a modified login script which
> creates drive mappings to
> >\\server2\company and also modify their 'home' folder to
> \\server2\%user% ,
> >establish a VPN between site1 and site2 so that if the
> link is up everyone
> >uses site1.exchange for email, set site2 users to use
> offline folders (OK,
> >Outlook 2k3 defaults to Exchange cached mode, but you
> may not wish to use
> >O2003).
> >
> >"Lucian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:126f801c41177$88243070$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have two small offices that need to share files and
> >> email services. Would you setup one Small Biz Server
> and
> >> have the other office vpn into it? Setup two Small Biz
> >> Servers or scrap small biz and use standard versions of
> >> server and setup one office with Exchange?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> Lucian
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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