JimS_Work
join:2004-09-22
Grandview, MO
|  Active Directory for Management with Minimum Traffic
We've had a gateway-to-gateway VPN up and running for years now with Linksys BEFSX41s at remote offices with one to three computers and a BEFVP41 ant the main office. We've finally upgraded our DC at the main office to SBS 2003 and enabled it as the DNS server and DHCP server. The remote offices are all their own workgroups and not members of the main office domain. But what I'm wondering is if we can configure them to allow for the advantages of remote management that active directory would give us without taking major performance hits along the way. Like I said, management of the remote computers is the main reason for doing this, file access and applications currently use terminal services and would continue to do so.
The typical remote office is using a basic DSL connection (768 up/1.5 down) while the main office is using a cable connection (1.5 up/7 down) with the appropriate caveats to real world speed. Is it possible to join the remote computers to the domain and setting their DNS server to our DC but not take a performance hit by their web browsing going through our DC? What other gotchas am I not thinking of? Does anyone have any experience with this kind of setup? I also don't want to worry about their internet capability going down if the server goes down though that's a secondary concern dealing mostly with not getting calls about it while I'm busy with the server. |
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BuggyBoyNYC
Sirius God
join:2000-11-19
Edison, NJ
 ·TowerStream
| If you can change your DHCP to your remote office to give the remote office the DNS IPs of your primary office, then you can join those computers to the domain.
The Internet traffic will still only funnel through the remote office's Internet connection, only DNS requests will go to the main office (not much traffic).
Hope that helps!!
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