John Caspary
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Preserving NTFS file permissions during server 2003 upgrade
Soon I will be upgrading my 2003 server. I have two 2003 servers and both are domain controllers.
The plan is to erase the first 2003 server and do a clean install of 2012. This server has a D: Drive that contains users folders and shared directories. I am concerned about the NTFS permissions of the files. I'm not concerned about the share level permissions as those will need to be re-created.
Upon promoting the new server to the network, I'm hoping I can migrate the active directory information from the other domain controller to the new server.
Assuming all the above is possible, I am interested what will happen to the file permissions on the D: drive. I was told they will be lost and I will manually re-create them.
Is this true? If so, is there anyway I can preserve these permissions to avoid the task of re-creating everything?
The plan is to erase the first 2003 server and do a clean install of 2012. This server has a D: Drive that contains users folders and shared directories. I am concerned about the NTFS permissions of the files. I'm not concerned about the share level permissions as those will need to be re-created.
Upon promoting the new server to the network, I'm hoping I can migrate the active directory information from the other domain controller to the new server.
Assuming all the above is possible, I am interested what will happen to the file permissions on the D: drive. I was told they will be lost and I will manually re-create them.
Is this true? If so, is there anyway I can preserve these permissions to avoid the task of re-creating everything?
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Excellent advice. Thank you especially for the section on preserving the shares.
if you are planing to clean installation of 2003 server and then you will install 2012. so obviously you are again adding this server to domain. (as 2012 will again DC) so you will NOT lost the security settings.