Hi,
We currently have a physical Server 2008 R2 box which acts as File Server with approx. 3TB of data on. We have a Server 2012 R2 VM which we want to be the new File server. Currently we are thinking of setting up DFS to replicate the data from the master server (which will have 100s of people connected and changing data etc). One both are in sync - out of hours we will turn the physical off and change IPs and name etc, check shares are correct and then let everyone go to the new file server. (we have approx. a 15 min window this change can take place in). Has anybody ever used this method before?
thank you