I have two sites shortly to be connected via 100mbps P2P leased line.
Site A: Company A has 2 DC’s (2003), Exchange2003, ISA2004 plus various F&P servers, one of which houses an aging Foxpro system (flat file structure with local exes)
Site B: Company B has SBS2003
We are moving some of the operations from Site A to Site B, so that Site B will have employees of both Company A & B.
Company B is a subsiduary of Company A but does not need access to Company A’s resources, nor does Company A need access to Company B’s resources.
Company A’s employees on Site B need to log onto and access Site A’s resources, including the Foxpro files.
A consultant has suggested logging all at Site B onto B’s domain and creating a DMZ to share data – I can’t see how that will work, Company A employees on Site B will not be able to use A’s email unless via OWA.
My IT guru is suggesting a costly VLAN and creating a forest with the two subdomains. Needless to say my Directors don’t want to spend anything!
What would you advise?