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If I was to do it, I'd configure DRS to replicate the two shares, and then change the policy overnight. &nbsp;This way, the data is fully in sync with permissions already in place, and then it's just a minor change which switches them to the new path.<br />
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Once everybody is over and working great (verify by viewing open files on server1), then stop the DRS replication and decommission server1.
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If I was to do it, I'd configure DRS to replicate the two shares, and then change the policy overnight.  This way, the data is fully in sync with permissions already in place, and then it's just a minor change which switches them to the new path.

Once everybody is over and working great (verify by viewing open files on server1), then stop the DRS replication and decommission server1.

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Do you mean DFS? <br />
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What happens if I don't use DFS? I'd like to understand the user experience for that if we don't deploy it. 
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Do you mean DFS?

What happens if I don't use DFS? I'd like to understand the user experience for that if we don't deploy it.

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I currently have a GPO that has several thousand users redirecting their mydocs folder to \\server1\shares\%username<wbr />%. I've configured a server called server2 using failover clustering and want to move all this data to \\server2\shares\%username<wbr />%.<br />
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I want to do it with minimal user impact. I'm concernd that if I just update the group policy setting to point to the new share that I'll have thousands of machines moving data at the same time (I think if the GPO changes, the machine will automatically move data to the new share from the old one, right?). I want to aovid slowness and large amounts of network usage.<br />
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What's the best way to do this?
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I currently have a GPO that has several thousand users redirecting their mydocs folder to \\server1\shares\%username%. I've configured a server called server2 using failover clustering and want to move all this data to \\server2\shares\%username%.

I want to do it with minimal user impact. I'm concernd that if I just update the group policy setting to point to the new share that I'll have thousands of machines moving data at the same time (I think if the GPO changes, the machine will automatically move data to the new share from the old one, right?). I want to aovid slowness and large amounts of network usage.

What's the best way to do this?

Migrating a my documents redirection share

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