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An easy way to do this is to make in an alias in dns for serverA that points to serverB.<br />
ServerA shouldn't have an a record any more and must be powered down.<br />
We have used this solution for our file server as well.<br />
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An easy way to do this is to make in an alias in dns for serverA that points to serverB.
ServerA shouldn't have an a record any more and must be powered down.
We have used this solution for our file server as well.



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Unfortunately I'll still need to leave the other server up and running, as we've moved it to a different role beyond file serving, so wouldn't be able to axe it in dns.
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Unfortunately I'll still need to leave the other server up and running, as we've moved it to a different role beyond file serving, so wouldn't be able to axe it in dns.

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Good morning! &nbsp;I'm currently moving all of our network shares from one disk array to another, and as a result of this wanted to see about finding a way to redirect requests that are pointed at the old location to the new. &nbsp;The trouble I've run into is on some of the user's computers they were accessing the files directly by going to \\server\share\dir\file instead of using the mapped drives on their computer. &nbsp;What I'd like to try and do to address this instead of having to ferret out every instance is set something up so that if a user requests a file like this: &nbsp;\\serverA\share\dir\file it will send them to \\serverB\share\dir\file. &nbsp;We're currently running windows server 2008 on the old location and server 2003 on the new location. &nbsp;All our clients are either vista business or windows xp pro. &nbsp;Thanks!
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Good morning!  I'm currently moving all of our network shares from one disk array to another, and as a result of this wanted to see about finding a way to redirect requests that are pointed at the old location to the new.  The trouble I've run into is on some of the user's computers they were accessing the files directly by going to \\server\share\dir\file instead of using the mapped drives on their computer.  What I'd like to try and do to address this instead of having to ferret out every instance is set something up so that if a user requests a file like this:  \\serverA\share\dir\file it will send them to \\serverB\share\dir\file.  We're currently running windows server 2008 on the old location and server 2003 on the new location.  All our clients are either vista business or windows xp pro.  Thanks!

File Redirection for Server Shares

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).

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.