{"id":31,"date":"2011-05-23T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebeagle.itgroove.net\/?p=31"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:47:09","slug":"server-migration-a-tale-of-two-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2011\/05\/23\/server-migration-a-tale-of-two-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Server Migration \u2013 A Tale of Two Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend any time at all with systems you\u2019ll know that, eventually, there will come a time when you have to perform a migration from your trusty but \u201ctired\u201d old server to some shiny new piece of kit.&#160; Depending on what the new platform is you might have access to some nice built-in tools to help the migration of data and settings from the old platform; Server 2008 R2 includes PowerShell scripts to help migrate from Server2003 and Server2008.&#160; But if you are on an older platform or, worse, your old machine is really old, you may have to look elsewhere for some help.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been working with a good customer of ours over the last few months to help them migrate from a mixed Server2000\/Server2003 environment to a new, shiny Server2008 R2-only backend.&#160; I was faced with the task over this weekend of moving all of the file shares off the Server2000 fileserver and I then had to modify a large number of user accounts to reflect the new location of the user\u2019s \u201chome\u201d drive.<\/p>\n<p>To perform the fileshares move I used a tool that I\u2019ve relied on many times in the past, <strong>ViceVersa Pro<\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgrmn.com\/index.htm?camp=goog_cm2&amp;gclid=CPq8q_Ce_qgCFecbQgodoxRNTg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TGRMN Software<\/strong><\/a><strong>.&#160; <\/strong>ViceVera Pro is a copy\/sync program that is available for Windows versions from 2000 all the way through to 2008 R2.&#160; It has a nice GUI and a number of features that make it extremely easy to copy large amounts of data between systems.&#160; I\u2019ve used it many times to perform copies between servers and I\u2019ve also put it in place at some customer sites to perform ongoing replication between systems.&#160; It\u2019s fast, highly configurable, does a good job, has strong error reporting (needed when there are problems with files \u201cburied\u201d deep in the filesystem) and offered with a fully-functional thirty day trial.&#160; If you need a program like this I\u2019d say look no further than TGRMN Software, highly recommended!<\/p>\n<p>The second piece of the server move was the need to touch a large number of user accounts to reflect the fileserver change.&#160; The AD accounts have the user\u2019s home drive set at the account level and not via GPO so I was faced with the onerous task of touching each and every account.&#160; Yuck!&#160; I Googled the problem and came across a number of scripted processes, none of which looked particularly inviting.&#160; I then came across <strong>WiseSoft Bulk AD Users<\/strong> from David Wiseman at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisesoft.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WiseSoft.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><strong>.&#160; <\/strong>A great tool that provides a simple and elegant solution to the problem I was facing.&#160; 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