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  • Friday, October 16, 2009 9:58 PMErdal01 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hello people,

    I am probably going to ask something common, but I haven't figured this one completely.
    A customer has a small network installed with SBS 2003 server.
    Now he has opened another office and from the second office we can connect to the head office with VPN.
    This works quite well, but now I want to merge the second office with the head office, so we would have only one network.
    The reason is that it would be much easier to manage and we can share resources.
    I know there are VPN routers that can do the job, but is there an alternative on how to connect the 2 networks?

    Regards,
    Erdal

     

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  • Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:26 AMKent Nordström Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    It is not clear if your SBS contains ISA but since you ask in this forum i guess so...

    Many Internet connecting routers are capable of doing Site-to-Site VPN with ISA. using either LT2P, PPTP or IPSec tunnels.

    One option is to set up an ISA server att the remote office as well and use Site-to-Site.
    But basically you can also use any Windows Server operating system to do the job by configuring RRAS for DemandDial Routing.
    It is, as always, a question of money, effort, security and cost ratios.

    In order to give more guidance i would need to know
    Do you have ISA in your SBS2003?
    What kind of internet gateway and servers do you have the remote office?
     
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:56 AMErdal01 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hello Kent,

    I don't think ISA is installed.
    And our routers aren't capable of doing site tot site connection.
    So if I install ISA on the SBS server and configure RRAS it will be possible?
    AT the remote site we only have an internet connection, there is no server avaible.
    The clients connect by configuring a VPN connection.
    This works quite well, but the only problem is that the clients are not the same network as the head office.
    For example we have 2 printers on the remote site and I want to configure the printer so it
    will be reachable on both locations.


    regards,
    Erdal
     
  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:27 AMNick Gu - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi,

     

    Thank you for your post.

     

    If you want to deploy site to site VPN, you should install ISA Server or Windows Server 2003 as its VPN Server on both sites.  For more information, please refer to the following link:

     

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc302474.aspx

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816514

     

    Regards,

    Nick Gu - MSFT
    • Marked As Answer byErdal01 Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:02 AM
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