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Roaming profiles in Win 2008 environment

1, We have two offices Office1 (2500 users) & Office2 (1000 users)
2, All the Active directory (Windows 2008) and file servers are located in office1.
3, We have a 30 Mbps line connecting these offices.
4, Users will be using their outlook and some web applications. They also access Excel & word files from file share.
5, We are planning to enable roaming profile for 2000 users from office1 and 600 users from Office2.

Questions:
What would be the most efficient way to configure roaming profiles?
Also how can we estimate the network bandwidth requirement?

Please let me know if you would like to know any further details to make the recommendation. Many thanks in advance.

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SuperTaco

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SuperTaco

You can either put them all in one OU, or you can keep them in multiple OU's, create a policy for roaming profiles, and apply that policy to multiple OU's. Calculating the bandwidth requirement can be very difficult of yyou don't know what your users are looking at or using. It also depends on what other services travel over the site-to-site link.

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Thanks for the suggestions...