Hi
I am are going to change file server, and the plan is following and I wonder if someone can see any potential problems with this plan, I cannot test it before the actually migration.
I have a new installed file server windows server 2012, that’s the new server. SWE-FS-xxx
The olds fileserver is a windows 2008 R2 server. SWE-FS-001
Many users running offline files on their home drive on their W7 machines (that they have manually set at the client). The mapping of the home drive is done on the accounts, other mappings are done in login scripts and also in group policy’s and everything points to SWE-FS-001
I want to avoid having a new name on the new fileserver because off all stuffs that points to the fileserver.
- The plan is following, copy all data with robocopy from SWE-FS-001 to SWE-FS-xxx and including all ntfs permissions.
- Create all shares on SWE-FS-xxx that exist on SWE-FS-001
- Turn off SWE-FS-001
- Delete the machine account for SWE-FS-001 in the domain.
- Rename SWE-FS-xxx to SWE-fs-001
- Check that the ip of the new fileserver have updated correct in the DNS so the server name SWE-FS-001 resolves to the ip off the new fileserver.
After these steps I hope that everything works after the weekend when users coming to the office, have someone done a file server migration and used this method?