dazza007 Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 (edited) Hi I have been working on migrating 100plus user home drives who use laptops and have offline file sync I used this script in testing successfully the migration of users with offline file sync http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2007/03/29/cscrenameitem-vbs.aspx I used the syntax below for the script as I understand that offline files sync using wmi object not CscRenameItem.vbs /OldItemPath: /NewItemPath: [/Machine:value] [/user:value] [/Password:value] I managed to get a successful migration when logging onto the machine as an admin and running the script after data migration and an home folder update My thought was that a user can run a shortcut to call the script and migrate their offline file syncs. If a user logs on to the machine they get a new home drive url sync as well as an old home drive url sync. So I cannot get the user to run the script as it fails as the new home share sync already exist. Is there a way of automating the migration of users with offline files? Logging onto 100 users machines is going to be a big administrative task HELP! Edited January 29, 2014 by dazza007
Jamo Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Hi I have been working on migrating 100plus user home drives who use laptops and have offline file sync I used this script in testing successfully the migration of users with offline file sync CscRenameItem.vbs - The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs I used the syntax below for the script as I understand that offline files sync using wmi object not CscRenameItem.vbs /OldItemPath: /NewItemPath: [/Machine:value] [/user:value] [/Password:value] I managed to get a successful migration when logging onto the machine as an admin and running the script after data migration and an home folder update My thought was that a user can run a shortcut to call the script and migrate their offline file syncs. If a user logs on to the machine they get a new home drive url sync as well as an old home drive url sync. So I cannot get the user to run the script as it fails as the new home share sync already exist. Is there a way of automating the migration of users with offline files? Logging onto 100 users machines is going to be a big administrative task HELP! If you alter the path to the redirected folders in a GPO (making sure the move the contents to the new location is ticked) isn't it supposed to take care of this for you? It's quite slow though! Might be worth staging if you can get it to reliably work. 1
dazza007 Posted January 29, 2014 Author Posted January 29, 2014 Cheers James, We met once at my interview before you left ...lol I think you setup the GPO at your old workplace to get the settings from a admx file that is local for the offline file sync. So a the same user logs on to the same machine and gets the old and new mappings ...confusing! Despite searching I could not find where you set up the redirection to the user home drive other than in AD. I'll look into your suggestions... Thanks Darren
dazza007 Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 James you are a star.... works a treat
Jamo Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 Cheers James, We met once at my interview before you left ...lol I think you setup the GPO at your old workplace to get the settings from a admx file that is local for the offline file sync. So a the same user logs on to the same machine and gets the old and new mappings ...confusing! Despite searching I could not find where you set up the redirection to the user home drive other than in AD. I'll look into your suggestions... Thanks Darren Haha how random, hadn't realised it was you! Hope the policies made some sense (:/ !!!), I spent the best part of a holiday condensing and rationalizing the policies! All policy changes should have been central on the laptops and desktops (think there was one for XP and one for >W7), I tended not to do anything locally which wasn't through MDT. Think then it was only some registry changes to ensure the soundcard was always active even when a phono jack wasn't plugged in! The setting (I am guessing you have found now, judging by the post underneath!! but for anyone who comes across it) is GPO/User/Windows Settings/Folder Redirection, then one for each of the redirected folders for W7. The 'home' directory set in ADUC won't move the contents I don't think (although I have never tried it tbh!) The setting is detailed here - Folder Redirection Overview (under Move the contents of [FolderName] to the new location) Does the offline file cache handle the move transparently for the user after the move without the VBScript?
dazza007 Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 HI James, What can I say, you miss one check box. The policies are making perfect sense, I transferred some of the msi installation GPOs into SCCM. The redirection is transparent. I did some testing today, using robocopy, sharing the home drive and then just moving the user into a test ou with a copy of your w7 gpo with the redirected library settings and the check box ticked. I didn't change the home drive mapping in AD and worked. Changing the AD before interfered with the GPO migration, confusing! The GPO also moves the data from original file share, leaving it empty. The migrated file sync to the home share works flawlessly. I needed to reboot the laptops twice to ensure 100% of the laptops got the group policy Running a 10 user test group this weekend. Migrated all student users without a hiccup so hopefully this is the only hurdle to get over! Once this is done then its' setting up the new domain 1
Jamo Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 Those MSI ones were def good candidates for removal, I never liked GPO software install but those software packages just didn't go on through the 'normal' package mangler. :-P The domain migration should be fun! I was told to look in to the ADMT tool when looking at that: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974384(v=ws.10).aspx Say hello to everyone! :-D
dazza007 Posted February 3, 2014 Author Posted February 3, 2014 Hi James Testing not going so well . Problem with one of our test users! Do you have any ideas on this, I think it is the quotas on the new server as I have robocopied the data across and the group policy them moves the data. The user data was still on the old server when logging in ! and the folder redirection was still to the old server.thank god I had rollback this morning! Looking into it now - The following error occurred: "Failed to redirect because there is not enough disk space on the target folder "\\fs3\\Desktop".". Error details: "There is not enough space on the disk. Stressful morning it has been!
dazza007 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Posted February 4, 2014 Figure that out... remove the quota on the receiving drive ...... no lockups so far. However when the computer syncs to the new share every document on the sync errors saying that a document on the server is the same on this computer with the same time and date stamp! Grrrr.
dazza007 Posted February 6, 2014 Author Posted February 6, 2014 Can anyone advise? Is this a wise thing to do with user data? 1.Open up registry editor (WARNING: Only for Advanced Users) 2.Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc 3.Add a new key (folder) called Parameters (Sometimes this already exists) 4.Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc\Parameters, add a new DWORD called FormatDatabase and set its value to 1
ajs Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 That'll clear the CSC on the machine and cause the offline files to be resynced from scratch. It's OK to do if there are any pending syncs to be done back onto the server.
dazza007 Posted February 6, 2014 Author Posted February 6, 2014 Thanks I copied the local cached data onto a drive and binned the csc. I had to delete the user profile to get the new policy loaded... slowly getting there!
Jamo Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 I've only just noticed there were replies to this post sorry mate, did you have any luck with the moves?
dazza007 Posted March 6, 2014 Author Posted March 6, 2014 It works ok mate just as long as the users restart their computer. We had a few hiccups with one of the dns servers going down during staging however overall it is getting there Staff have to sync their computers I transfer the data to a temp backup and the process is then put into action for the next morning I had to remove the quota limits on the receiving drive as the process threw up errors. Thanks for your help
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