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SharePoint at two sites

Hi there! I need some advice on providing access to a SharePoint site at two branches. At the moment they have the site hosted in the one office so users in that office obviously enjoy high speeds for accessing documents. Users in the other office have to make due with whatever speed they're getting through the site-to-site VPN over WAN links.

I'm no expert in SharePoint farms or SQL replication so I wanted to ask what the best way would be to provided higher speed access to the users in the other office? Is there a way of getting another SharePoint server running on the second site to accomplish this?

Thanks!

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ebooyens

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Thanks. I've read a little about that but I think you require 2008 R2 servers right? And I thought it was just for file shares, so it's for sharepoint sites as well?

They're one 2003 and 2008 servers at the moment so we'd need to upgrade before that's possible.

bradgcoza

Yea it works well with SharePoint.

You wont be able to use SQL replication unless you have a 1ms line between the two servers.

You can always split the content up if possible. Build another machine on the remote location, so say you have a New York office and a Florida office. If New York only looks at sales and finance keep all that content in New York, and if Flordia only looks at HR and Marketing keep those sites there.

So you split up the servers but at least the speed will increase for local content and other content will be slower.

ebooyens

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I would have preferred that but unfortunately they have massive overlap between offices so won't be able to split these out.

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ebooyens

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mmm, not a bad thought, I'll consider that thanks.

If I added another front-end server in the other site and (excuse my crude understanding of sharepoint farms) pointed it to the same content database on the other side of the vpn, would that work or would it just not allow me to do it? At least then IIS caching will help speed up downloads of unchanged files right?

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ebooyens

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ok, thanks for the help

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