Our manufactuing facility is in the U.S. The servers run Windows 2003 std and enterprise editions. I also have an Exchange 2003 front end / back end topology running. It’s a pretty straight up configuration, 1 active directory domain.
We are going to open an office in TanJin, China and want to administer their network (which will be a new implementation) from our U.S. location for the most part. A VPN tunnel will be setup between the two locations.
Our current domain is xyz.com. Our China location will be xyz.com.cn. I’m seeking suggestions on an effective way to set this scenereo up. I could make their network completely independent of ours and control it via remote access which will mean in addition to 2003 server, I will also have to purchase exchange server for their location or possibally setup multiple domains or forests on my domain controller and within my Microsoft Exchange?
Let me know if you have 1st hand experience with this or any effective solutions.
Thanks!