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Everything worked without a hitch. Just had to reshare the different folders and set the share permissions that I had writen down in a word doc. Thanks
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Everything worked without a hitch. Just had to reshare the different folders and set the share permissions that I had writen down in a word doc. Thanks

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I currently have a VMWare 5.0 environment and I have a Win 2003 X64 bit files server. It is running really slowly across the network and I am currently building a new Win 2008 R2 server. <br />
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I wanted to know if I transfer the E drive that is a seperate VMDK to the new machine will it keep all the permissions accociated to the files and folders in 2008 that were assigned in 2003?<br />
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Also would I be able to just power off the first machine then asign the vmdk to the new machine or should I remove it completely from the first?
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I currently have a VMWare 5.0 environment and I have a Win 2003 X64 bit files server. It is running really slowly across the network and I am currently building a new Win 2008 R2 server. 

I wanted to know if I transfer the E drive that is a seperate VMDK to the new machine will it keep all the permissions accociated to the files and folders in 2008 that were assigned in 2003?

Also would I be able to just power off the first machine then asign the vmdk to the new machine or should I remove it completely from the first?

Easy swap of VMDK to make new file server

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.

Windows Server 2008

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).