setup branch office question?

I need a book(s), website, or other to teach/tell me how to setup a
branch office with about 15 users.

Requirements:
I would like to place a server at the remote office for users to
authenticate against and use for file services.

I would also like to see this server from our corp office in Network
neighborhood.

I need to be able to create users accounts from corp office until
someone is hired in branch office.

replication traffic should be kept to minimum.

I have a router based site-to-site vpn working now with a Win2K server
just sitting at the branch office waiting on me to configure it.


I know I probably want a DC with DNS and WINS running. This will allow
network neighborhood to work and users to authenticate locally. Should
it be a GC also? My corp domain is domain.com... would I make the
branch office branch.domain.com or should I keep everything under 1
domain.com name?

But I am lost on what I should do or how to do it correctly. I could
make it work just not sure that it would scale later and would be done
correctly.


Thanks for any help

"HB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:e$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I know I probably want a DC with DNS and WINS running. This will allow
> network neighborhood to work and users to authenticate locally. Should
> it be a GC also? My corp domain is domain.com... would I make the
> branch office branch.domain.com or should I keep everything under 1
> domain.com name?

One Domain,...DC at each physical location. If you have a lot of remote
locations that each become large in themselves, then you can have Child
Domains (Trees in the Forest) at each site, but I dont think that applies to
you,...just run a single domain.

You can run DNS, DHCP, WINS all on the same DC box and it can also be a CG.
Keeping a DC with these services at each physical site helps the site
continue to function with limited functionality even if the WAN link goes
down for a period of time.

Investigate using AD Sites (AD Sites and Services) over WAN links. One of
the purposes of the Sites Object and Subnets Object in AD is to control
Replication over slow WAN links,...which is really the core of what you are
asking.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
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