On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on your description and the network guys doing it right....you are fine.
Thanks! That's what I thought. It's all on them. LOL > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Michael Leone > Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 11:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Advice: physically moving a site, but not changing AD > Site info ... > > 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 .... > >
