What is the best way to connect a branch office to a domain ?

Our company has recently acquired a new site with 10 new staff. We are
wanting to connect the 2 sites via broadband. Head office of 20 staff, has a
SBS2003 running exchange, remote web workplace etc. the branch office
currently has no server. Should we set up a new server at head office to run
terminal services that the branch users could connect to it or should we put
a new server into the branch and connect it to the existing server at head
office ?

We want the branch office users to be able to access our exchange server and
also access97 databases, along with general documents etc.
Any advice appreciated.

Craig

Since you will run access database, TS is good option. If you have IPSec VPN routers in both sites, you may want to letup Site to site VPN.

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"Craig C" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:4A13C13E-B232-4971-97E0-(E-Mail Removed)...
Our company has recently acquired a new site with 10 new staff. We are
wanting to connect the 2 sites via broadband. Head office of 20 staff, has a
SBS2003 running exchange, remote web workplace etc. the branch office
currently has no server. Should we set up a new server at head office to run
terminal services that the branch users could connect to it or should we put
a new server into the branch and connect it to the existing server at head
office ?

We want the branch office users to be able to access our exchange server and
also access97 databases, along with general documents etc.
Any advice appreciated.

Craig

In news:4A13C13E-B232-4971-97E0-(E-Mail Removed),
Craig C <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> Our company has recently acquired a new site with 10 new staff. We are
> wanting to connect the 2 sites via broadband. Head office of 20
> staff, has a SBS2003 running exchange, remote web workplace etc. the
> branch office currently has no server. Should we set up a new server
> at head office to run terminal services that the branch users could
> connect to it or should we put a new server into the branch and
> connect it to the existing server at head office ?

This is up to you. If the connection is reliable, and the users don't need
offline access to anything, and you want to keep your data all in one place,
and/or there's no reliable tech support there to maintain the server or do
backups....then TS is your friend.
>
> We want the branch office users to be able to access our exchange
> server and also access97 databases, along with general documents etc.
> Any advice appreciated.

They can do that via TS, easily. They can also access Exchange via locally
configured Outlook (using RPC over HTTP) if you like.
>
> Craig

PS: Access *97* ?