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How to Migrate the DFS root to a new server in Windows Server 2008 R2 Environment

Hello,
We have 3 locations and three locations. We are decommissioning one of those locations. Therefore, we need to both Demote and remove the Domain controller at that location. This DC is also the DFS root. How do we migrate this to one of the other locations?

kevinhsieh

You should have the DFS namespace hosted by multiple servers for redundancy. I would recommend that you have a server at each location host the DFS namespace.

For instructions, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732807.aspx
To add a namespace server to a domain-based namespace

Click Start , point to Administrative Tools , and then click DFS Management .

In the console tree, under the Namespaces node, right-click a domain-based namespace, and then click Add Namespace Server .

Enter the path to another server, or click Browse to locate a server.

Remove the server to be retired from the namespace before demoting it. If the server is participating in DFS replication, you should remove that also before demoting the server.

JesusFreak42

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Ok. Here's what it looks like:

- Server A (Location A)
- Houses Shares A, B, and C
- Runs DFS

- Server B (Location B)
- Runs DFS
- However, the location of the files on Server B is NOT Shared. This will be where we want to point people to after we are done.

- Server C (Location C)
- Runs DFs
- Don't want to change anything on this server.

So do I basically just need to do what you described above to server A and then share out the directories on Share B?

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JesusFreak42

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We are actually only using DFS-R

kevinhsieh

Okay, so no DFS namespace. Can you please outline what directories you have replicating between which servers?

If you are just doing DFS Replication, which means that you should already have two copies of the files, you just need to add the third server to the replication group, wait for replication, and then remove the old server from the replication group.