Redirected My Documents and migrating to new file server

[Guest EdA]

I want to move all my network files and shares to a new server. One of the

shares is for storing all our users redirected My Documents.

 

Are there any issues with moving the redirected files to a new server? What

is the best procedure to do this? Should I modify my group policy settings

first and then copy the files from the old server to the new server?

 

Thanks

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Redirected My Documents and migrating to new file server

 

EdA <EdA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I want to move all my network files and shares to a new server. One

> of the shares is for storing all our users redirected My Documents.

>

> Are there any issues with moving the redirected files to a new

> server? What is the best procedure to do this? Should I modify my

> group policy settings first and then copy the files from the old

> server to the new server?

>

> Thanks

 

Are you redirecting to something like \\existingserver\share ? So that all

users get \\existingserver\share\My Documents ?

 

I think I'd do this by copying the data to the new location, using robocopy

(and the /SEC switch), share the parent folder, then change the group policy

settings, then unshare the parent folder where the old data lived, as a

test. Do this after hours while nobody is logged in, of course.