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Satellite office active directory integration

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by tardcart 1 view

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I have a office in another state that is currently running peer-to-peer. They are a subsidiary company, but completely managed by us. I'm finally getting a T1 hooked up and want to get them access to our domain with access to resources at our home office. I know of a number of ways to accomplish this, but I'd like input on what you guys think would be the best way.

Should I:

Keep them part of our Company.local domain with their server replicating with our current PDC

Put them on a Subsidiary.Company.local sub domain

Set them up an a new Subsidiary.local domain in our forest

Have them in their own forest

I try to live by the KISS principle, but since they technically are a different entity I think there should be some separation.

Thoughts?

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by unhappyuser

I would go with your first option.

Is there a DC at the remote site? If not, and money is tight, you could set up an old Power User PC as s DC for replication and it wouldn't cost a lot.

It sounds like you really don't have to do much. You're right also - KISS usually works.

Good luck!

EMD

by tardcart

That was my first thought.

I don't have a DC there yet, but I'm recycling on old Athlon64 X2 desktop to do the job.

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