Home Share Migration

[Steven L Chan]

Hi All,

We are currently in a planning process to migrate our Windows File Servers
to a NetApp solution.

We have a number of home shares (3) that our users utilized, what would be
the best solution in modifying their home share to point to it's new
location?

I believe consolidating all 3 home shares into one and just modifying their
Home Folder to one location would be the easiest.

If I use RichCopy or Robocopy, it would retain their NTFS permission, so
that wouldn't be a problem.

Thoughts?

Steven

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Steven L Chan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are currently in a planning process to migrate our Windows File
> Servers to a NetApp solution.
>
> We have a number of home shares (3) that our users utilized, what
> would be the best solution in modifying their home share to point to
> it's new location?

Select them all in ADUC and right-click/properties, and you should be able
to change the path to \\newserver\home$\%username%

I'm hoping you aren't sharing out individual folders for each user.
>
> I believe consolidating all 3 home shares into one and just modifying
> their Home Folder to one location would be the easiest.
>
> If I use RichCopy or Robocopy, it would retain their NTFS permission,
> so that wouldn't be a problem.

Yes, I would use robocopy and the /sec switch.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Steven

Also consider ditching home directories. Those are a pretty archaic concept
now. Simple folder redirection of My Docs (and if possible, Desktop & App
Data) via GPO is a lot more seamless.