Q: Server 2008 R2 in office with 5 users, Opening another office down the road, same domain? Hope this is the best place to ask this question!
We currently have a small office with 5 computers and a server 2008 R2. We have just opened another small office literally across the road... sadly out of Wifi range so are looking to connect another 5 PC's in this office, with server, and link it to the same domain potentially over VPN.
However I have no idea if this is the best way to go around this. All users in both offices need to be able to log on to any PC and the file server in our primary office needs to be able to be accessed in our secondary office.
Both offices have a broadband connection and is currently running around 4mb/s down.
Any input would be gratefully appreciated and wither or not this is the best way to go about this?
Cheers in advance,
Chris

A: Yes, definitely use 1 domain for this (preferably with at least one Domain Controller at each site) and use something like a site-to-site VPN to logically stretch the one network across the two sites. Talk to your ISP about what options they have to facilitate connectivity between the two sites. They can probably do MPLS, or a simple site-to-site link for you.

A: Windows 2008 will let you do DFS-R which if setup correctly, you could replicate your files from one location to the other in near-realtime (bandwidth permitting of course).  If you did both as an AD member server, you could easily allow logins at both locations and access to their files would happen between either server.  The other added benefit of this is that if one server goes down, you could set it up to use the other office's server during disaster recovery.  
