Redirected My Documents and migrating to new file server

[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

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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.