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Server share to DFS Migration without End User intervention

Currently we have 2 AD sites and 1 Files server. The file server is located a site 1. The files server is named \\ServerA. All the users at both sites have mapped share of \\ServerA\Share

I want to decomission/replace the ServerA with ServerB at site 1, add Server C to Site 2, and then make a Domain DFS replication & Namespace between ServerB & ServerC. The question is...... Is there anyway I can make the Namespace shares look like \\ServerA\Share, so that end users will never notice the change?

Todd Gerbert

Nope. Your DFS namespace is going to be \\domain.name\DFSNamespace name.

Although, you can include \\ServerA\Share in your DFS topology, this way either path will work until you re-configure the clients.

Unisys1

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Is there anyway, perhaps DNS, to make serverA = "domain.name" so the old users drive mappings would work?

Todd Gerbert

Hmm...I'm not sure, but if you care to wait until Monday I'll happily give it a try on my DFS.

Do clients access the share via a UNC path, or do they all have drive letters mapped? If it's a drive letter mapping, then it shouldn't be too much trouble to use a login script to disconnect the old mapping & reconnect to the new path.

Unisys1

ASKER

Thanks tgerbert, I'd love any help you can give. I am not this Domain's Admin, I was just asked if I could set up a better solution for our 2 WAN linked sites to makeUsers' shares faster, redundant. Currently all of the shares were set up by someone without using a login script. I am just doing what I can to make this transition to a better system, seemless. But.... we will do what is necessary to get this done, and if that means users have to remap drives, then so be it. I am just trying to avoid this for the ~50+ users.

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Unisys1

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I looked at my problem more and I tried just making a CNAME of ServerA= domain.name and I got undesired results of "A duplicate name on the network exists". Weird. But taking your script into consideration, I think I'm going have to remap their shares, and a VBScript sounds good. I will even share it and have the users run the script them selves..... I believe....

So basically, I will be doing lots of file movements and new DFS folders do minimize our domain shares. I.E.

\\ServerA\Share
.....will become.....
\\domain.name\DFSShare\DFSfolder

And I will use your script to make that happen. Thanks!