We transitioned our users network shares to a SAN, remapped printers to a different server, and disabled DHCP on their local server (we have helper routes in our router that direct their DHCP requests to a server in our data center). We’ve been operting like this for approximately 3 weeks. This is one of our remote branches, so we weren’t able to get to the location to remove the server until recently. After removing the server, everyone end users PC is has slowed down very noticably. Things as seemingly simple as clicking on the start menu take 20-30 seconds to respond. All the machines have 2.2GHz processors or greater, and a minimum of 2GB of RAM. De-fragging the HDD has not solved the speed problem. Is there anything in removing that server physically that could be causing this that I am missing?
