I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but I want to verify.

I've got a remote site that is scheduled to be shut down for the day
next week, for power issues (don't ask me, I don't own the building
...). Since this site is scheduled to be abandoned next month, the
Powers That Be have decided that they want to move the servers out of
that site, down to the main data center, on Wed. This means that when
the building re-opens on Thu, all the employees who are still at that
remote sitewill then log in to the servers across the WAN.

<sigh>

Now this site is also a Site in AD, with 4 subnets assigned. The
servers that are moving are all only in 1 subnet (x.x.16.x),

Got all that?

So I think if we physically move the servers to the main datacenter,
re-configure some switch ports there to be the .16 subnet. And
everything should still Just Work  ...

by which I mean, the folks still out at the remote site can still
login in to the domain, and access their file server, pretty much
transparently. They're just going to be accessing their files long
distance now, instead of locally.

I don't need to do any AD or host reconfiguration, right? There is
switch reconfigs to do (ports), but that should be on my networking
guys, correct?

Anything I can tell them to make sure they cover? This is all
possible, right? And shouldn't be a big deal, presuming the
connectivity all works? I am not a networking guy in any sense ...

Thanks for any help. This just dropped into my lap when I came back in
today. I thought we had until the end of Feb to prepare for this ....


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