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Subject: Branch Office Setup
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Jonathan Edwards User is Offline
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8/26/2008 09:01 AM  
Hi,
We are opening a new office for one of our clients.
 
At the moment, we have one office with 7 users running a SBS 2003 Std. We use Exchange/SMTP to email.
 
The plan was to connect the office by two VPN boxes.
 
The new office is to hold 5 users.
 
We aren't going to be installing an additional server at the branch office. File storage/access is going to be local.
 
A couple of questions with this..
1) Is it best to add the remote PC's to the domain?
2) If we do, will logon be quite slow?
 
Thanks
Jonathan
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8/26/2008 01:10 PM  
the login process itself is an insignificant amount of traffic but things such as Profile or Document redirection can cause significant delay. The default SBSLogin script will also transfer the SBS setup.exe across the VPN, it ain't big but it also ain't tiny.

A bigger problem concerning remote offices with no local server share is transfer of 'working data' across the VPN, dbl-clk a reasonable sized flat file database and you can go get coffee before it opens (only bosses seem to think this is bad :-), but more importantly any interruption to the VPN is _likely_ to corrupt the database. A Word doc with a couple of images in it, an Excel spreadsheet with graphs, decent size PDFs are all similarly afflicted at least as far as the data transfer is considered.

The better solution is to implement a TS at HQ. People from the remote office can either directly access the TS or through RWW (your choice, I would use RWW). This means any data transfer between the calling app and the file happens at HQ network speed, it is only screen updates that go across the link.

TS is not however a 'panacea', it does not solve all your problems because there are considerations about apps either working or 'being supported' in a TS environment.

There are though 'management advantages' to operation via TS. Consistent application version by various users and such unexpected things as 'OK, I don't need a hulking great PC as a workstation in order to run Vista+Office, I can use either a thin client or very basic PC to establish the TS session then my experience is same whether I am in the office, at home, or on holidays'. 5 very basic PCs with no software installed, other than OS, would allow your remote office to connect to RWW then TS.
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8/26/2008 01:30 PM  
I think that's why we have opted to keep the storage of files local for now.

We've been asked how much dedicated bandwidth we require.

How much would be sufficent for this connection?

Obviously the more we get, the more it costs!
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8/26/2008 01:37 PM  
for older TS it's about 24K per TS Session (upload from TS, download to client). This increased when they made TS 32(or is it 15/16) bit graphics, rather than the old 8bit, but if you're doing word processing or using most apps you can limit the connection demands.
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