File Sync over Network

Hi,

We have recently opened a small remote office. We plan to install a W2K3
based server at this location and use the Sites feature to access the
primary W2K domain. Our problem is that we use a lot of Excel/Word
documents and access these files over a broadband connection in painfully
slow - not to mention logging onto toe AD.

What we would like to to is store a copy of the data on the new W2K3 server
(at the remote office) and then have the files auto sync when changes are
made. Is this possible with Windows? Or is there a third party app that
will do what we need?

I have searched the technet site and google but have been unable to find any
information - if anything I'm a little more confused - can anyone help?

Many thanks,

Mark

Mark Irvine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have recently opened a small remote office. We plan to install a
> W2K3 based server at this location and use the Sites feature to
> access the primary W2K domain. Our problem is that we use a lot of
> Excel/Word documents and access these files over a broadband
> connection in painfully slow - not to mention logging onto toe AD.
>
> What we would like to to is store a copy of the data on the new W2K3
> server (at the remote office) and then have the files auto sync when
> changes are made. Is this possible with Windows? Or is there a third
> party app that will do what we need?
>
> I have searched the technet site and google but have been unable to
> find any information - if anything I'm a little more confused - can
> anyone help?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mark

DFS (distributed file system)?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...s/default.mspx

Or, a cheap and cheerful scheduled xcopy/robocopy job that does "delta"
copies nightly?

Or, if you want to keep everything centralized in the main office entirely
for admin/backup, etc, you could look into Terminal Services so that the
remote office users just connect to the TS server in the main office, with
nothing installed/stored/resident locally. This could make your admins'
lives a lot easier - and you don't need anything installed locally on the
remote office computers other than the Remote Desktop client. Of course, if
your Internet connection/VPN fails, they don't have access to any data this
way .... but it can be a very good solution.