Remote Offices

[zetec452]

Hey,

I've been tasked with planning two new offices in Hong Kong and China and to integrate them into our network. 90% of our staff will reside in Canada along with our data so I'm thinking Terminal Services and VPN's.

However, I would like some advice on the kit and whether or not I need a server? The offices will have 5-15 people initially so I'm thinking of popping a small server in for local auth and DNS, maybe a small DFS share to sync local files. What do you think? I think this will work under one AD domain, we have very little change to AD.

Cheers,

Jon

 

[zetec452]

Cheers chaps. I had forgotten about the RODC, it will most definitely use that. Probably won't be using sub domains in AD just yet as tbh it'll be more of a headache than anything. Decent OU's and group policies should keep me in check.

I have a sonicwall here and will use a restricted site to site vpn with another sonicwall at the other end with a bit of web content filtering and IDS etc. Its a decent small business product.

DFS would be used for the remote office sales papers and such I guess, just so they have something locally, everything else will be at HQ. The DFS for now is a floating idea. It may or may not be implemented.