Moving DFS share from 2003 to 2008

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hi,
long time no post! I see things are ticking along nicely here!

We are planning to offline two ageing 2003 servers which are only serving a DFS share now to a 2008 environment - belong to same domain.

Is it just a matter of adding the file services role to the new servers, pointing it to the namespace and then replicating the share over?

Thanks!

 

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Hi Boycie

I did it a slighty different way in that I copied the data over to the new machine and set the share permissions. Then using the DFS MMC I added the folders as targets of the DFS links and then removed the old targets.

No idea if thats the correct way of doing it but it worked.

 

Hi Dave,
Sorry about the slow reply. Many thanks for that. I'll let you know how it goes.
Cheers!