Details on Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2

We are planning to move our file server from a Server 2008 cluster (running on an outdated SAN) to a Server 2008 R2 cluster attached to a new SAN.
The FSMT looks like the best way to accomplish this, but I have a few questions.
1. The docs don't mention 2008 R2 in any functional descriptions, but the requirements on the download link at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10268 mention
2008 R2. Does this version of the tool work with 2008 R2? If so, are there any restrictions or features that are unavailable?
2. The existing file servers are old and tend to get slowed down periodically by a combination of heavy use, security software, and automated vulnerability scans. The docs do mention graceful rollback, but is there any mechanism for retrying copies due to
slow/dropped connections?
3. We cannot have a single point of failure, so DFS will have to be clustered. Can the DFS root server run on the same cluster as the source or target file servers? Target would be preferable since we intend to decommission the source cluster. (We are in
a restricted environment where adding machines takes a great deal of time.)

I havent tried your scenario with FSMT.
Do you have a DFS Namespace that you use today for the access?
Im not certain that FSMT can setup a DFS Consolidation namespace in a Cluster, but it is possible by hand anyway.
Microsoft KB829885 specifies how to setup a DFS Consolidation namespace in a Windows 2003 Cluster, the process for a single node is the same so I guess the same is true for cluster setups.
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Im going to migrate File server from Windows 2008 Standard server to Windows 2012 Standard . Source and Destination Servers are on different subnets . According to this
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj863566.aspx I cannot use Server migrations tool in-built into 2012 . Im not sure if I can use file server migration toolkit 1.2?.
Also my Domain controllers are mixture of Windows 2003, 2008 , 2008 R2 and I've upgraded the schema level to 2012 R2 . Is there anything else I need to be aware of ?
Can anyone please recommended best way to go about doing this migration . Is file server migration toolkit 1.2 is compatible ? .
Only reason I don't want to use Robocopy to this is because If I miss a small setting etc then I will face unwanted downtime.
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Hi mumtaz,
We could use file server migration toolkit 1.2 to migrate file server between the two subnets. In order to maintain security settings after the migration, please ensure the security of files and folders after they are migrated to a target file server, the File
Server Migration Wizard applies permissions that are the same as or more restrictive than they were on the source files and folders, depending on the option you select.
In the meantime, quota cannot migrate by this tool but we can export and import the quota using dirquota command. Export the templates as xml and then import to new server:
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For more detailed information, please see:
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730873(WS.10).aspx
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File server migration with Offline files involved

Hi,
We are planning a file server migration in following weeks.
This morning, our customer came with the good old "Ow, and I just thought about something else"
Here's the scenario :
-They are using 1 network drive
-That network drive is made offline available for all laptop users
-Those users are spread out in several country's. No VPN connection
-They are working for months on their offline network drive, right in the middle of the wood, no internet connection, it was already short for them to find power supply for their laptop ...
...nevermind
-The day they come back to the office, the file server to which points the network drives will be offline.
Now the 1 Million question : What happens with their "dirty" files ?
yep exactly. those they changed 6 months ago, have no clue about if you ask them but certainly will the day I will clear the damn cache.
My first analysis :
-The new file server will have another name, no alias or re-using the old name is possible (the customer don't want to)
-I can't tell to those laptops "hey for that offline cache, please use this new network drive"
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>> Those users have to identify manually files they changed while being offline, copy them locally on their machine and work that way the time they come back to the main office.
>> When they finally show up, clear the cache, offline the new network drive and replace file copied locally
>> If no internet connexion available in the branch office, let them work locally, it's still better than this hybrid-non-sense 6month offline folder "solution". If internet connexion is mainly available remotely, propose some Citrix/View/RDS
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Someone has another (better?) idea/solution ?

Hi,
I suggest you ask users to collect their laptop to internet, then start offline files synchronization on the old file server. After that, use
Robocopy to copy the date from the old server to the new server. As the offline files cache cannot be recognized by the new file server, so we need to synchronize data first.
If the older server cannot be enabled, as you mentioned, you might need to ask users to copy their changed files to the new file servers.
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File Server Migration Source and Target Data Validation

Does anyone know of a power shell script/CLI command or some other way to verify source and target data after a file server migration? I want to make sure that the shares that are migrated from the source and target are an exact match. Thank
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Hi,
An example is provided in this article:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/10/08/easily-compare-two-folders-by-using-powershell.aspx
$fso = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path C:\fso
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And actually Robocopy could also do this job with /L and /log:file parameter.
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(question) File Server Migration ability ?

Hi, All
I started to migrate my 2003 File server to a new 2012 File server
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now my question by copying it like this, shall the permission will be effected
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Hi,
You can use the robocopy command to copy data and security permissions to a storage then attach the storage to the new server. But the robocopy does not do aprovide local group migration. It will migrate the permissions to the new server, but they will show
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The command line would look like this:
SubInAcl /subdirectories C:\SomeDirectory /Replace=SomeUglyLookingSID=NewServer\NewGroup
SubInACL (SubInACL.exe)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23510
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File Server Migration - For ORG A Forest to ORG B Forest ( Need to create and Map Security Group automatically on new Migrated Folders - Please Help

I have two forest With Trust works Fine .
I have file server in ORG – A ( Forest ) with 2003 R2 Standard
I have a File server in ORG - B ( Forest ) With Windows server 2012 ( New Server for Migration )
I have 1000 + folders with each different permission sets on ORG-A. We are using Security groups for providing permission on the share Folders on ORG A
I need to Migrate all the folders from ORG – A to ORG – B.
I am looking for an automated method of creating Security Groups on AD during the Migration, Once the Migration is Done, I can add the required users to the security groups manually.
Example.
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Output Looks Like
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Hi,
I think you can try ADMT to migrate your user group to target domain/forest first. Once user groups are migrated, you can use Robocopy to copy files with permission - that permission will continue be recognized in new domain as you migrated already.
Migrate Universal Groups
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974367(v=ws.10).aspx
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Cluster File Server Migration

Dears,
I have my source cluster based on WIndows 2008 R2 with SP1, and my new target cluster is Windows 2012 R2.
when I run the copy wizard it validate if I can migrate the file server, however, it is giving me those in yellow mark:
File Server IP Address is not eligible to be copied. (Failed to read 'EnableDhcp' property)
FileServer01 is not eligible to be copied.
Is this normal?
How to continue migrating file server role?

Hi Jean M,
Could you try to manually configure the IPs by referring to the previous 2008 R2 node, then and bring the new file-servers online?
More related information:
Best practices for migration of cluster windows 2008 R2 / 2012 - As melhores Praticas para migrar um Cluster de Windows 2008 para Windows 2012
http://blogs.technet.com/b/hugofe/archive/2012/12/06/best-practices-for-migration-of-cluster-windows-2008-r2-2012-as-melhores-praticas-para-migrar-um-cluster-de-windows-2008-para-windows-2012.aspx
How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with the Cluster Migration Wizard
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/06/25/10323434.aspx
Migration Paths for Migrating to a Failover Cluster Running Windows Server 2012 R2
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn530781.aspx
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File Server Migration NTFS Permissions cleanup

Hello,
I have migrated a file server from Domain1.com to Domain2.com, using the lates ADMT tool the security translation that i have choosen in the wizard is Replace so I can get the same users on domain2.com to access the resources.
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Icacls
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525.aspx
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File server migration software, what is out there?

I'll be migrating about 9Tb of files from 10 file servers from the 'old' domain where we have limited rights to our new domain where we will be having to re-create (rather than migrate) users and security groups. We cannot set up a two way trust between
the domains. (one way may be possible).
The files are user shares, department shares and (unfortunately) PST files.
I was wondering if someone has experience or know about software that could help with this. I've found the
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What would seem especially important is some functionality that 'maps' security groups form the source domain to the target domain groups.
I was hoping you might know of other tools that do the same thing? Any experience with a similar challenge?
Regards, Paul www.servercare.nl

Hi,
From the description, you would like to migrate data to a server in a different domain
with permission.
Copy files with permission is easy - robocopy could help with using /copyall. However the copied permissions will not be recognized as it is a different domain.
Thus if data need to be copied with permission, which means the same users and groups in domainA should be recognized in domainB. This leads us using ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) to do the user/group migration first.
However you need a Trust between the 2 domains to do the ADMT. If "limited rights" stopped you from creating a one-way trust (source domain trusts the target domain), you may not able to copy files with permissions.
FYI:
ADMT Guide: Migrating and Restructuring Active Directory Domains
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974332(v=ws.10).aspx
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MAC, CS2: File server migration problem/Missing Link/auto remap behavior.

Hi,
I'm just leaving a quite "trace" in case someone else get in similar problems and do a search of the forum, it's very technical and i'm also missing some information, so i wont make a special effort to make it easier to understand.
We did a migration of a project from a OSX desktop station used as a server to a real OSX server (same root volume name, exact replication of the folders). Many of links in the indesign documents (not all) are missing.
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Files server migration with deduplication

Dear All,
I need to migrate the FTP server from Windows Server 2003 Web Edition to Windows server 2012R2 Std.
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Are you going physical to physical or virtual to physical or virtual to virtual? Say your going virtual to virtual, you can umount the virtual volume and shift it to the new VM and setup your FTP server to point to the volume. But the downside to going virtual
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short names and disabling 8.3 naming. The beauty is if you are doing domain permissions for ACL's on the filesystem then you do not have to apply them to the volume. You just have to rebuild shares and you can apply everyone access to those. But if they were
local machine ACL's like a machine on a workgroup you would have to rebuild them.
If it's physical to physical you have similar options if you utilize a shared SAN for your storage.
I've done both of these options and downtime was minimal something like 5 to 15 minutes. That being said I'd still recommend Robocopy if you could do it.

File Server Migration -- when server names change

Interesting. I wondered if that would work, but with it being a DC and all I didn't want to try this out.
However, I do have the opportunity to demote the older server now. It doesn't have to remain a DC.
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Hello,I have a process I use to migrate workstations that have fileserver shares mapped whether those maps are done via Group Policy or otherwise.In my current situation, I am migrating from Server 2003 to Server 2012. I like to use the use new Drive Mapping policy in 2012 as opposed to the scripts employed in 2003. So, I typically create that GP then force disconnects of all the mappings on all the workstations manually, then logout to apply the new policy.Because I have a little bit of breathing room between when I will do this cutover and today, I thought I might ask the question: Is there a more automatic way to force workstations to look at the new server for their fileshares?DFS is an option but since it's not set up today, I don't think it'll help this particular situation.
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Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for Access issues

If this is not the correct forum my apologies.
I have used the assistant on Windows 7, 32bit and all worked as expected. Now I am on a Windows 7, 64bit machine, ran the assistant against a MS-Access 2007 database (same database used on the 32bit machine) and get the following (which I have seen searching
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Thanks Olaf,
I download the 64bit provider mentioned
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File server migration

Hi here the scenario,
Domain A has a fileserver , access to shares are restricted with ACL, I'm planning to disjoin the fileserver from domain A and will join to domain B , will it affect ACLs.
Thanks in advance,
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If your ACL contains references to security groups from domain A, and there is no trust between A and B, then ACL will be affected: all references to groups from domain A will become invalid.
Gleb.

How to migrate File server to NAS device?

All right so here's the scenario.
An external forest level trust is setup between two forests A & B as recently as we acquired the company B.
Users from forest B were already migrated to domain A.
Now I need to migrate file server from domain B to my domain A but the target where we need to move file shares is a NAS device, so basically we cannot do a simple server migration from domain B to domain A.
We need to copy over the data+ACL+Share permissions from fileserver in domain B to a NAS device in domain A whereas of course ACL permissions on file server present in domain B will obviously be as per source domain user accounts, example ACL permissions
currently will show as "B\user1".
So whats the best way to perform this in order to maintain the permissions & data.
Another question how do we copy share permissions from file server to NAS as I can robocopy the data with security permissions but how to copy over all the share permissions to destination NAS?

Hi,
You need to retain the SID History attribute when users across domains to ensure users in the target domain can access to files during migration.
For more detailed information, please refer to the threads below:
ACL migration
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/3c75a116-6bd3-407f-a76c-0d825d4f525a/acl-migration
File server migration using FSMT 1.2 in NAS environment
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fb4bf505-2d95-4409-9777-8fd4a1c0c471/file-server-migration-using-fsmt-12-in-nas-environment?forum=winserverfiles
In additional, you could backup registry key SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares to copy share permissions.
Saving and restoring existing Windows shares
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125996
ADMT and network mapped drives
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/9752e31d-2f35-4d7d-ae4d-2f9fe9400bfe/admt-and-network-mapped-drives?forum=winserverDS
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