Multiple AD Domain DFS

[jalbright1957]

Good morning. I currently run a Windows 2019 server for a AD domain in our office. Part of our work is providing services for a company in another state which includes management of their AD server infrastructure, utilizing a MS Access database application & various other file system operations which at times involves large amounts of data transfers. Data transfers across their local LAN is fine & their database application runs very quick but, due to being rural with a maximum internet connection speed of 50mbs, transfers take a while and database response is horrible. An example is selecting a record and waiting upwards of 1 - 2 minutes or more for the record to appear. Our local server has plenty of resources for creating a virtual server environment & I was considering setting up a Hyper-V session to be a member server in their domain & use DFS in order to have a fully local copy of the database & the necessary server folders.

Some documents I have read state it is ok to run a second AD domain in a Hyper-V session but is this something that can be pursued? What sort of issues can be expected on the servers if the VM connection goes down?

 

[Neemobeer]

If not already established you can create a trust between the forests so you can use the accounts in your forest to access the resources in the other forest. You could then just setup a DFS server in your network on the other forest. That should handle replicating any files including the access database

 

[jalbright1957]

That sounds a whole lot simpler than Hyper-V & possibly a lot less headache. Will see about doing this over the weekend... Thanks for your information.