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This was a duplicate question, and lionelmm put in good information.
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This was a duplicate question, and lionelmm put in good information.

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we have windows 7 clients and users configured with roaming profiles stored on a windows 2003 file server. now we want to decommission the windows 2003 file server and move the Roaming profiles to a new windos 2012 r2 file server cluster. one of the folders in the user profiles is redirected to the users home folder. home folder is also residing on the same windows 2003 file server. after the profiles are migrated we want to get rid of the roaming profiles and use only folder redirection pointing to the new file server cluster.<br />
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need some ideas and the best way to go about it
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we have windows 7 clients and users configured with roaming profiles stored on a windows 2003 file server. now we want to decommission the windows 2003 file server and move the Roaming profiles to a new windos 2012 r2 file server cluster. one of the folders in the user profiles is redirected to the users home folder. home folder is also residing on the same windows 2003 file server. after the profiles are migrated we want to get rid of the roaming profiles and use only folder redirection pointing to the new file server cluster.

need some ideas and the best way to go about it

Migrating roaming profiles

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).

Windows Server 2003

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.