Is the server strictly a file server? No domain-based services required? If they're currently not in a domain, and just need access to the one server, I'd certainly leave them in a workgroup. Since they'll only have one server, you probably don't want to make the file server a DC as well; may as well make all the users domain admins. Plus, you'd probably want a second DC for redundancy, plus you'll need DNS, etc. I'd just leave it as a workgroup. Add them to your domain later when it's appropriate...
********************** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security, CCNA Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 510 595 5083 ********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RM > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:07 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] Remote disconnected site -- best practice? > > Hi all, > > I'm faced with a remote site that has decided to spin up > their first server. They're totally disconnected from the > enterprise intranetwork; Any user who needs access to company > resources currently uses a software VPN client. > > > > At some point in the far-off future, this site will become > part of our global network. Our global AD consists of a > dedicated forest root with three child domains. > > > > Given this information, what recommendations would you make > to this site to minimize our integration pain down the road? > Right now, the workstations are not in a domain. I'm tempted > to tell them to NOT create a forest/domain and to just stay > in workgroup mode. If they were to spin up their own DC and > join all the workstations, would we have to go through a full > domain migration when the time comes? There's always the > option of leaving them alone and creating a cross-forest > trust, but I think our four domains are already too many and > I don't want a fifth! > > Thx, > > RM > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
