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Move VHD from one Hyper-V VM to another
I have two VMs running on Hyper-V, one is a Win2008R2 server with a drive dedicated as a file share. I'd like to detach that VHD from the server and move the VHD to another VM running Win2012R2. If I do that will the share/security transfer over?
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Going from 2008 to 2012 shouldn't be an issue. Going from 2012 to 2008 has concerns if you're using the VHDX format (2008 cannot)
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Got it. Thanks for your help.
True about the shares - I wasn't thinking about them. The NTFS security transfers - the shares are a part of the server configuration and not the file - they will not. However, you can export the registry key for LanmanServer service and import it and preserve the share config that way (I would only do this as a test first and would edit the exported file so I'm ONLY importing the settings for that share).
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Do you know of any compatibility issues between Win2008R2 and Win2012R2 that would cause the problems transferring the drive from one OS to another?