School who has windows servers and recently purchased iMacs with Apple svrs

Hi Folks
I like to introduce myself to the forum. My name is Ranj and I am the IT manager at Queensbridge School in Birmingham, UK.
Our school has recently purchased 44 iMacs with an Xserve and XRAID box.
We are school with mainly windows and unix servers and this reason for us buying a apple server was so we could lock the macs down using managed preferences which we have successfully done.
Our Xserve is connected to our active directory system, and from there it allows our students to login to the macs using there windows credetionals. As the apple server talks directly to AD it also connects to their home share folders.
The problem is my windows server only has a 400gb raid and my plan is to somehow migrate all the home folders from the windows 2003 server to our XRAID but am having trouble with it preserving the windows permissions.
I know that Apple can talk via SMB and if i moved the home directory data to the apple server i would still be able to see it on the windows side but am having trouble copying all the files and folders whilst keeping all the ownership and security information.
Does anyone know if there is a util or script which will allow me to do this. Has anyone successfully used robocopy (a microsoft tool) which i am familar with and managed to copy data from a windows server to an apple server.
If anyone can help me with this problem it would be most greatly appreciated.
I have to say I been a Windows user all my life but can now see why Apple Macs are a big deal, there are so much better at what they do compared to their window conterparts.
I am looking forward to the world of Apple and this forum
Thanks

Hi Ranj,
welcome on the forum.
I use the cli command rsync for it. I know colleges who use ditto or asr for it.
all programs have good man pages or help.
Regards
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