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I have used Microsoft File Server Migration many times and have had no problems as long as you follow the instructions. Remember to change the share name on the destation server after the migration.
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I have used Microsoft File Server Migration many times and have had no problems as long as you follow the instructions. Remember to change the share name on the destation server after the migration.

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Thanks for the reply, what do you mean change the share names?
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Thanks for the reply, what do you mean change the share names?

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When the migration is complete you'll see the new share name takes the form of 'originalsharename'_'origi<wbr />nalservern<wbr />ame'
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When the migration is complete you'll see the new share name takes the form of 'originalsharename'_'originalservername'

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Ok, good information to know. Thanks. What I plan to do is this, after the migration is complete, I am going to take the old server offline, rename the new one to the same name as the old one, and change the static ip on the new one to the old one.<br />
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I am hoping that the workstations will not see any difference in the shares.<br />
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Do you think that this is a correct assumption?
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Ok, good information to know. Thanks. What I plan to do is this, after the migration is complete, I am going to take the old server offline, rename the new one to the same name as the old one, and change the static ip on the new one to the old one.

I am hoping that the workstations will not see any difference in the shares.

Do you think that this is a correct assumption?

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Hello experts,<br />
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I am getting ready to migrate a old windows 2000 file server to a brand new windows 2003 file server. I plan on &nbsp;using the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit for this, and I would like to know if anyone has had any experience with it, what were the issues you faced, what should I expect from it.<br />
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In addition, any advice you have as I go into it.<br />
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Thanks!
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Hello experts,

I am getting ready to migrate a old windows 2000 file server to a brand new windows 2003 file server. I plan on  using the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit for this, and I would like to know if anyone has had any experience with it, what were the issues you faced, what should I expect from it.

In addition, any advice you have as I go into it.

Thanks!

File server migration and the MFSMT

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

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).