Reduce the hassle of sharing folder porting using the File Server Migration Tool

Because many administrators experience updates to Windows 2003 server from earlier versions of the Windows Server operating system (for example, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000), Most of them have experienced migration problems and the merging of shared folders from one or more old server platforms in the future. Part of these problems is due to changes in norms and technology. The administrator wants to be able to migrate the old network path, named after the Universal Naming convention (Universal Naming Convention, UNC), to a possible share of the new distributed filesystem (Distributed file system, referred to as DFS). At the very least, they want to be able to keep the existing UNC shares as much as possible.

Copying everything to a new server by hand is a way out of line. It's slow, it's cumbersome, and it leaves a lot of room for error, and if you're porting dozens of or hundreds of shared files, it's going to take a lot of effort. In order to make this trivial transaction simpler, Microsoft has developed the file server migration Toolkit, a software package that, when you need to transfer files and shares from one server to another server, It can accomplish a number of different tasks.

The following programs are included in this tool:

File Server Migration Wizard: The wizard is an interactive application that allows you to choose which folder will be ported. Licensing, review rules, and folder sharing can be replicated as easily; You can automatically create DFS connections for each replicated file frame, and you can even preset events on the target server to ensure that the results of the changes do not have devastating consequences. When you run the wizard, it collects all the detailed reports that can be printed as a result of the changes.

DFS consolidation root Wizard (Dfs Merge Root Wizard): This application allows the administrator to establish a DFS connection for the old UNC pathname, so people who attempt to access the shared files that have been removed through the original UNC pathname will be pointed back to the DFS connection. Before you run this wizard, you need to install a hot patch, which is described in the Microsoft Knowledge Base number 829885 article.

The File Server Migration Wizard does not have bandwidth throttling. In other words, the program will use all the bandwidth it can find to do its own operation. If you have a lot of porting work to do, consider porting after working hours, which can reduce the impact on your local network.