Question : User profile redirect

I have a SBS2003 at the main office and a server 2003 as DC but not global catalog at a branch office. We use roaming profiles and the users and profile folders are on the SBS and i will be replicating all data from SBS to brancnh server. If someone logs into main office using VPN then RDP i want them to pull thier profile from main office server, if they log into branch office using vpn then rdp i want them to pull thier profile from branch server. how do i set this up?

Answer : User profile redirect

The best way to do this is to use DFS.

Basically you set up what is known is a dfs name space, for example, \\yourdomainname.local\DFS\Home.
You then create two folder replicas, one for each site.

You then use DFS replication to manage the updates and replication of the data between the two sites and you use DFS to host the virtual name.

What happens is when a client navigates to their profile name, which has to be \\yourdomainname.local\dfs\profile etc, they will automatically be redirected to the closest replica.

DFS is pretty easy to setup, and it works a lot better with R2, but works ok with standard 2003 server.

Have a read of this and see if it helps
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778480.aspx
Steve