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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.
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However if you want to move profiles anyhow,
Then create new share on target server, normally while creating new share for roaming profiles, keep everyone full control share and lets not touch NTFS part,
Then Use robocopy with the /COPYALL switch to copy the NTFS permissions as well as the files from each profile.
Ex:
C:\Robocopy.exe "E:\Profiles" "\\NEWSERVER\profiles" /r:10 /COPYALL /E /ZB /LOG:C:\Robocopy_Profiles.
If data size is large, I mean if you can't copy all data within off hours, then you need to run above command multiple times to copy any incremental changes before final cutover (robocopy always run in incremental mode only)
Once than is done, check for test user by changing profile path if he gets the same roaming profile on new server, if that succeeds then point all users to new roaming profile share via user properties or via GPO
However if you have permissions issue during copy process via robocopy because of roaming profile behavior, you need to take ownership of roaming profile share followed by grating your admin ID full control before you use robocopy
Use Subinacl to take folder ownership followed by full control perms without destroying other permissions
You can see below article for that:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/17526/Windows-File-Server-Folder-ownership-problems-and-resolution.html
you might want to add administrators group full control via GPO on new profile server to handle future migration scenarios
The GPO setting can be found under computer configuration\administrati
The GPO needs to be placed on OU containing new profile server before any user starts logging on new profile server