best way to migrate file shares to new server

I currently have a Win 2K server with about 300GB of data in a file share,
that i want to migrate to a better server running Win 2K3 at a remote
location. What i think would be best would be if i could set up a constant
replication/syncing of the data from my current server to the old one, so any
changes made on old would be reflected on new. Then one evening after
everyone is done with the old server, i would stop that file share, and point
everyone's shortcuts to the new share. how could i best accomplish this? or
another option would be to have it sync both ways and i can just slowly move
users over one by one to the new server until they are all on it, then stop
the file share on the old server. thanks in advance for the help.

Hello Rich,

Make sure your connection to the remote location is robust. You can use robocopy.exe
to copy the data including permissions.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc733145.aspx

You can just change the shortcut with a gpo or login script for the users
after changing to the new server. What way are you using now. I would not
use different shares with the same content during the copy phase, this will
result in conflicts for the users and there data access. Remove the existing
share, copy data to the new server and create the new share, so you are sure
no files in use from any user and you have it complete accessible during
the copy phase.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> I currently have a Win 2K server with about 300GB of data in a file
> share, that i want to migrate to a better server running Win 2K3 at a
> remote location. What i think would be best would be if i could set
> up a constant replication/syncing of the data from my current server
> to the old one, so any changes made on old would be reflected on new.
> Then one evening after everyone is done with the old server, i would
> stop that file share, and point everyone's shortcuts to the new share.
> how could i best accomplish this? or another option would be to have
> it sync both ways and i can just slowly move users over one by one to
> the new server until they are all on it, then stop the file share on
> the old server. thanks in advance for the help.
>

Hello Rich,

Also you can use FSMT:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...ocs/msfsc.mspx

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> I currently have a Win 2K server with about 300GB of data in a file
> share, that i want to migrate to a better server running Win 2K3 at a
> remote location. What i think would be best would be if i could set
> up a constant replication/syncing of the data from my current server
> to the old one, so any changes made on old would be reflected on new.
> Then one evening after everyone is done with the old server, i would
> stop that file share, and point everyone's shortcuts to the new share.
> how could i best accomplish this? or another option would be to have
> it sync both ways and i can just slowly move users over one by one to
> the new server until they are all on it, then stop the file share on
> the old server. thanks in advance for the help.
>