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Thanks. &nbsp;I thought that R2 had some tools to make it simpler, does it?
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Thanks.  I thought that R2 had some tools to make it simpler, does it?

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Not that Im aware of - DFS was over hauled bur we are still using Robocopy and Xcopy :)
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Not that Im aware of - DFS was over hauled bur we are still using Robocopy and Xcopy :)

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I have two file servers, one is Windows 2003 Server SP1 and the other (new) server is Windows 2003 Server R2. &nbsp;Basically the new server is going to take the place of the old file server, more space. &nbsp;I want to move my shares and directories over to the new server but keep the security on the folders and files. &nbsp;Does R2 offer any easy way to do this? &nbsp;Keeping both servers online permanently and using DFS is not an option since I need to reuse the old file server for another purpose. &nbsp;I was thinking of upgrading the old server to R2 to facilitate the move but I don't know if there is any point to doing this.
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I have two file servers, one is Windows 2003 Server SP1 and the other (new) server is Windows 2003 Server R2.  Basically the new server is going to take the place of the old file server, more space.  I want to move my shares and directories over to the new server but keep the security on the folders and files.  Does R2 offer any easy way to do this?  Keeping both servers online permanently and using DFS is not an option since I need to reuse the old file server for another purpose.  I was thinking of upgrading the old server to R2 to facilitate the move but I don't know if there is any point to doing this.

Moving directories between R2 servers.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).