Thanks John. Of course, now I have to defer to JamesNT.
I will say that two offices could work except everyone is stuck on VPN and LogMeIn, etc. Again, you would need a professional, preferably Microsoft MVP in networking and use a server at either end with Terminal Services. Then it would be like the satellite office is using the same database in real time.
I think that many of these issues arise, because users face difficult issues but don't hire IT people who can solve difficult problems. Yes, the price goes up in the beginning, but it likely costs very little or nothing to have a professional networking guy come out and say, "Sure, that can be done or oh my god, are you kidding me?"
Users come on here all the time and ask about Imported Items and scanning and ePrescribe, and they will like get a fast and valid answer most of the time. But, they also come on here and ask how to network two or more offices together and expect 1) for us to have the knowledge to do it, 2) for us to be able to communicate that knowledge over a website, and 3) for us to understand their complete setup and what they want for an end result as well as what hardware they are using.
Sorry John, I don't mean to keep saying the opposite. I am not talking about tceg's group, I am referring to users who want to do something fairly complicated but don't want to pay for it up front.
